Completed and Active Research
Flexible Team
Ongoing Research
- Continued Monitoring of Original I-94 Westbound Asphalt Overlay Sections and Use of Cracking and Performance Data MRCC Project, co-sponsored with Rigid Team
- Mix Rejuvenator Test Sections (Phase 3)
- Field Validation of Using Warm Mix Asphalt at Reduced Production Temperatures for Balanced Mix Design
- Materials-Based Methods to Improve Rumble Strip Durability, co-sponsored with PM Team
- Standardization of SIP Calculation for Hamburg Wheel Tracking Test
- MnROAD Reflective Cracking Challenge
- Recycled Binder Availability
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Geotech, ICT, and PM teams
- Perpetual Pavements in Wet-Freeze Climates
- Mix Rejuvenator Test Sections (Phase 2)
- Developing Best Practices for Rehabilitation of Concrete with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Overlays related to Density and Reflective Cracking
- Understanding and Improving Pavement Milling Operations, co-sponsored with Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
- Impact of Polymer Modification on IDEAL-CT and I-FIT for Balanced Mix Design
Completed Research
- Validation of Loose Mix Aging Procedures for Cracking Resistance Evaluation in Balanced Mix Design
- Asphalt Real Time Smoothness (ARTS) for Asphalt Paving, co-sponsored with Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
- Cold Central Plant Recycling (CCPR)
- Longitudinal Joint Construction Performance
- Mix Rejuvenator Synthesis (Phase 1)
- Novel Methods for Adding Rejuvenators in Asphalt Mixtures with High Recycled Binder Ratios
- Tack Coats
Geotechnical Team
Ongoing Research
- Improving Moisture Resistance/Control of Pavement Foundation Systems via Engineered Water Repellency
- Instrumentation and Data Management/Analyses for Measurement While Drilling (MWD) Technology
- Performance Evaluation of Wicking Geotextiles for Improving Drainage and Stiffness of Road Foundation, co-sponsored with Flexible and Rigid teams
- Flooded Pavements App--Phase II, co-sponsored with Preventive Maintenance team
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Flexible, ICT, and PM teams
- Continuous Moisture Measurement during Pavement Foundation Construction, co-sponsored with Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
Completed Research
- Determining Pavement Design Criteria for Recycled Aggregate Base and Large Stone Subbase
- Environmental Impacts on the Performance of Pavement Foundation Layers
- Improve Material Inputs into Mechanistic Design Properties for Reclaimed HMA Roadways
- Larger Subbase Materials
- Mechanistic Load Restriction Decision Platform for Pavement Systems Prone to Moisture Variations
- Permeability of Base Aggregate and Sand
Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
Ongoing Research
- Automated 3DGPR Analysis for Concrete Pavement Evaluation co-sponsored with Rigid Team
- Effective Use of Traffic Speed Deflectometer for Network-based and Project-based Applications
- Establishing Applicability of NDT Methods for Project-Level Evaluation
- Veta Enhancements for Material Delivery Management System (MDMS) Standardized Platform
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Geotech, Flexible, and PM teams
- Support Importing, Viewing and Analysis of Dielectric Constant Data in Veta
- Understanding and Improving Pavement Milling Operations co-sponsored with Flexible Team
- Continuous Moisture Measurement during Pavement Foundation Construction co-sponsored with Geotechnical Team
Completed Research
- Asphalt Real Time Smoothness (ARTS) for Asphalt Paving co-sponsored with Flexible Team
- Evaluation of Levels 3-4 Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV) for Soils Subgrade and Aggregate Subbase Compaction
- Seismic Approach to Quality Management of Asphalt Pavement
- Validation of Electronic Truck Delivery Ticketing of HMA Material
Preventive Maintenance Team
Ongoing Research
- Hot Rubber Seal Coating to Survive Wet and Frozen Environments
- Materials-Based Methods to Improve Rumble Strip Durability, co-sponsored with Flexible Team
- Use of Recycled Materials in Pavement Preservation
- Thinlay as a PM Treatment
- Flooded Pavement Toolkit Phase II co-sponsored with Geotech team
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Geotech, ICT, and Flexible teams
- Spray on Rejuvenator Test Sections
- Effective Long Lasting Partial Depth Joint Repairs for Challenging Conditions
- Surface Characteristics of Diamond Ground PCC Surfaces
- Pavement Preservation Approaches for Lightly Surfaced Roadways
Completed Research
- Bio-materials Maintenance Treatments
- Spray on Rejuvenator Synthesis
- Service Life Enhancement of Substrates Overlaid with Thin Overlays (UTWBC, Chip Seals & Microsurfacing) for each state
- Concrete Pavement Restoration (CPR) for Bonded Concrete Overlays of Asphalt
- Maintaining Poor Pavements
Rigid Team
Ongoing Research
- Automated 3DGPR Analysis for Concrete Pavements, co-sponsored with ICT Team
- Reducing Embodied Carbon with Mineral-Blended Polymeric Microspheres
- Concrete Overlay Test Section Repairs Utilizing PEM and Diamond Grinding
- Development of Concrete Mix Designs/Matrix of Materials, Performance Properties, and Construction Field Sampling and Testing Expectations During Construction
- Use of Alternative Pozzolanic Materials Towards Reducing Cement Content in Concrete Pavements
- Use of Carbon Dioxide for Sustainable and Resilient Concrete Pavements
- The Use of Alternative Cementitious Materials in Concrete Pavements
- Engineered Dowel and Tie Bars combined with LTPP SPS-2 Determination of Causes for Cracking Over Dowel Bars
- Construction Report for Jointless FRC Roundabout in Minnesota
- Compacted Concrete Pavement
- Toward the Development of Pavement-specific Synthetic Fibers
Completed Research
- Effect of Low and Moderate Recycled Concrete Aggregate Replacement Levels on Concrete Properties
- Early Opening Strength to Traffic
- Enhanced Entrained Air Void System Characterization for Durable Highway Concrete
- Incorporate Joint Faulting Model Into BCOA-ME
- Design and Performance of Concrete Unbonded Overlays
- Performance Benefits of Fiber-Reinforced Thin Concrete Pavement and Overlays
- Performance of Concrete Overlays over Full Depth Reclamation (FDR)
- Repair of Joint Associated Distress in Concrete Pavements
- Reduced Cementitious Material in Optimized Concrete Mixture
- Solutions to Mitigate Dowel/Tie-bar Propagated Cracking - Phase 1