Road Research

NRRA Pavement Workshop

2019 Official Agenda

May 21, Day One

7:30 a.m. | Registration, continental breakfast

Session 1 | Welcome & Building Information Modeling Overview

8 a.m. | Welcome by Mark Gieseke, MnDOT
Moderator: Wendall Meyer, DA MN FHWA
8:10 a.m. | Overview of Building Information Modeling, Overall Aspects of Program, State Implementation Plans by Dave Unkefer, FHWA
8:45 a.m. | AASHTO Perspective by Michael Kennerly, Iowa DOT
9:30 a.m. | Break/Vendor Exhibits

Session 2 – 3D Design

Moderator: Chris Trboyevich, SRF Consulting
10 a.m. | BIM Delivery: Life Cycle from asset management to construction by Bill O'Brien, University of Texas
11 a.m. | 3D Design Packages by George Lukes, Utah DOT
12 noon | Lunch/Vendor Exhibits

Session 3 – Construction / e-Construction

Moderator: George Chang, The Transtec Group
1 p.m. | Vendor Presentations
Leica, Kelly Steeves
Topcon, Jim Preston
Trimble, Allistair Wells
2:30 p.m. | Break/Vendor Exhibits

Session 4 – BIM State Experience and Open Panel Discussion

Moderator: DJ Sosa, WSB
3 p.m. | Michigan DOT Experience – 3D Highway Design Model Cost Benefit Analysis, by Jon Gustafson, WSP
3 p.m. | NRRA Executive Committee Meeting, Members Only
4 p.m. | Round Table Discussion
4:50 p.m. | Adjourn by Glenn Engstrom, MnDOT

May 22, Day Two

8 a.m. | Registration
9 a.m. | National Road Research Alliance, State of the Alliance by Glenn Engstrom, Director
9:30 a.m. | Team Overviews

• Flexible Overview by Barry Paye, Chair, WisDOT
• Rigid Overview by Brett Trautman, Chair, MoDOT

10:30 a.m. | Break
10:45 a.m. | Team Overviews

• Geotechnical Overview by Terry Beaudry, Chair, MnDOT
• Preventive Maintenance Overview Jerry Geib, Chair, MnDOT
• Intelligent Construction Technologies Overview by Rebecca Embacher, Chair, MnDOT

11:45 a.m. | Lunch
12:30 p.m. | Overview of MnROAD Tour and FHWA Trailers by Ben Worel, MnDOT
12:45 p.m. | NRRA Team Workshops
Flexible Workshop

• Developing Best Practices for Rehabilitation of Concrete with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Overlays related to Density and Reflective Cracking by Eshan Dave, Univ. of New Hampshire
• Cold Central Plant Recycling (CCPR) by Derek Tompkins, American Engineering Testing

Rigid Workshop

• Recent findings from fiber reinforced concrete pavement research by Manik Barman, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth
• Mix proportioning reference the low cement content mixture sections by Peter Taylor, Iowa State Univ.
• Strength at Opening to Traffic by Lev Khazanovich, University of Pittsburgh

Preventive Maintenance Workshop

• Poor Pavements by Joe Korzilius, SRF Consulting
• SRF Partial Depth Repairs of PCC by Justin Lashley, Braun Intertec
• Short term SRF projects by Joe Korzilius, SRF Consulting

Geotechnical Workshop

• Environmental/Economic Analysis of the use of CIR, FDR, and SFDR by Dan Wegman, Braun Intertec
• Soil stabilization by Dave Rettner, American Engineering Testing

Intelligent Construction Workshop

• NDDOT’s Experience with E-Ticketing by Korby Seward, NDDOT
• MnDOT’s Experience using Automated Machine Guidance to Monitor Muck Excavation Activities by James Schneider, MnDOT

1:45 p.m. | Travel to MnROAD
2:15 p.m. | MnROAD Tour and FHWA Trailer Demos

• FHWA Mobile Asphalt Testing Trailer Program
• FHWA Mobile Concrete Trailer
• Density Profiling System, MnDOT
• Topcon
• GSSI

Map to Caterpillar in your program; Best Directions to Showroom

May 23, Day Three

7:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast
8 a.m. | Welcome by Glenn Engstrom, Director
8:10 a.m. | Gene Skok Scholarship Awards by Joe Labuz, Univ. of Minnesota
8:15 a.m. | Skok Distinguished Speaker: "Reflections on a Career in Asphalt Research" by Becky McDaniel, Purdue
9 a.m. | Rohrbach Distinguished Speaker: "Quarter Century of MnROAD Advancements" by Ben Worel, MnDOT
9:30 a.m. | Breaks/Vendor Exhibits
10 a.m. | FHWA Mobile Concrete Trailer by Jagan Gudimettla, FHWA
FHWA Mobile Asphalt Testing Trailer by Dr. Amir Golalipour, FHWA
11 a.m. | MnROAD Testimonials by Amy Beise, NDDOT
Zhanping You, Michigan Tech Transportation Inst.
11:30 a.m. | Lunch
12:30 p.m. | Technical Talk: Intelligent Construction by George Chang, The Transtec Group
1 p.m. | Use of Rejuvenators in HMA by Amy Epps Martin, Texas A&M
1:30 p.m. | NRRA Future Goals and Direction by Glenn Engstrom, Director
1:45 p.m. | Breaks/Vendor Exhibits
2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Research Tracks
Geotechnical Team (Room 1)

• Intelligent Compaction for Grading Materials by Soheil Nazarian, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
• Determining Pavement Design Criteria for Recycled Aggregate Base and Large Stone Subbase by Bora Cetin, Iowa State Univ.
• Phase 2 Geotechnical Research Project Previews
  • Mechanistic Load Restriction Decision Platform for Pavement Systems Prone to Moisture Variations and Environmental Impacts on the Performance of Pavement Foundation Layers by Bora Cetin, Iowa State Univ. and Eshan Dave, Univ. of NH
  • Improve material inputs into mechanistic design properties for reclaimed HMA Roadways
• Enhancing Project Delivery using Intelligent Compaction by David White, Ingios

Flexible Team (Room 2)

• Superpave 5 by Gerry Huber, Heritage Research Group
• Ideal CT by Randy West, NCAT
• Density Profiling System by Kyle Hoegh, MnDOT
• Open discussion of future research needs, and feedback on what we are doing, tech transfer improvements moderated by Barry Paye, WisDOT

Rigid Team (Room 3)

• Stringless Paving Panel
• First stringless project in Missouri by John Donahue, MoDOT
• Merits and demerits of stringed paving and why stringless paving by Bernard Izevbekhai and Norma Farah, MnDOT
• Industries’ perspective on stringless paving by Dan King, ICPA
• Development of new unbonded concrete overlay design procedure by Lev Khazanovich, Univ. of Pittsburgh
• Performance of whitetoppings in Minnesota by Tom Burnham, MnDOT

Preventive Maintenance Team (Room 4)

• Rejuvenator Spray-on by Jason Blomberg, MoDOT
• PM Team discussion
• Synthesis
• Test Deck
• Service life of UTBWC, chip seals and microsurfacing
• TAP membership discussion

Intelligent Construction Team (Room 5)

• Key to Successful Deployment of Intelligent Compaction and Paver Mounted Thermal Profiling Technologies by Curt Turgeon, MnDOT
• Identification of Asphalt Workmanship Issues using the Paver Mounted Thermal Profile and Intelligent Compaction Method (includes Veta software demonstration) by Rebecca Embacher, MnDOT and James Schneider, MnDOT

4:15 p.m. | Adjourn