Pavement Design

Pavement Design Guidance

• State Aid Flexible Pavement Design Guidance (PDF, 185 KB)
• State Aid Rigid Pavement Design Guidance (PDF, 175 KB)
• Alternate Bid for Pavements Guidance (PDF, 90 KB)

Pavement Design Tools

• ESAL Calculator (Excel, 30 KB)
• ESAL Overview (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• SALT R-value Determination (PDF, 1 MB)
• Special Traffic Counts (PDF, 220 KB)
• Vehicle Classification
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Pavement Projects
• Falling Weight Deflectometer Project
• Major Traffic Generators
  • Best Practices Guide (PDF, 3.5 MB)
  • Impact Tool (Excel, 270 KB)

Pavement Design Programs & Charts

Flexible Pavement Design

• MnDOT Flexible Pavement Design (Excel, 0.5 MB)
• MnPave – MnDOT M-E Flexible Pavement Design
• State Aid Flexible Pavement Design Charts Using Soil Factors
  • Ultimate 10 Ton Staged Flexible Pavement Design using Soil Factors (PDF, 40 KB)
  • 7 & 9 Ton Flexible Pavement Design Using Soil Factors (PDF, 90 KB)
  • 7 Ton National Preservation Routes Flexible Pavement Design Using Soil Factor (PDF, 15 KB)
  • MnDOT R-value Bituminous Pavement Design Chart (PDF, 45 KB)

Rigid Pavement Design

• State Aid Concrete Pavement Design (PDF, 175 KB)
• MnDOT Rigid Pavement Design
• R-Value vs. Design k-Value for StreetPave (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• White Topping Design (PDF, 170 KB)
• Unbonded Overlay Design (Excel, 245 KB)

Pavement Design Specifications

• Flexible Pavement Specifications
• Asphalt Binder Specification for Polymer Modified Binder - John Garrity Memo, 10/31/14 (PDF, 150 KB)
• Asphalt Binder Specification for Polymer Modified Binder (2015) (PDF, 3 MB)
• Rigid Pavement Specifications

Pavement Design Information

Alternate Bid Life Cycle Coast Analysis

• Recommended Flexible Pavement Preservation Rehabilitation Strategies (PDF, 80 KB)
• Recommended Rigid Pavement Preservation Rehabilitation Strategies (PDF, 70 KB)
• Prices for Alternate Bid LCCA Rehabilitation Strategies (PDF, 70 KB)

Warm Mix Asphalt

• WMA Guidance for Local Transportation (PDF, 210 KB)
• MnDOT Information
• MnDOT Guidance Memo (PDF, 240 KB)
• WMA FAQs (PDF, 350 KB)
• MnROAD Brief (PDF, 0.5 MB)

Pavement Design Tech Memos

• American Concrete Pavement Association StreetPave Software for Design of Concrete Pavements for Cities and Counties (12-SA-03)
  (PDF, 40 KB)
• GeoGrids (multiaxial) General Specifications, Granular Equivalent and Design Guidelines (10-SA-03) (PDF, 145 KB)
• Specification 2360 – Plant Mixed Asphalt Pavement - Design Guidelines (10-SA-02) (PDF, 195 KB)
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Pavement Projects (10-04-MAT-01) (PDF, 60 KB)
• State Aid Tech Memos
• MnDOT Tech Memos

Pavement Design Resources

• MnDOT PG Binder Guidelines (PDF, 30 KB)
• 2360 Mix Designation Number Examples (PDF, 145 KB)
• State Aid Rules Chapter 8820 (PDF, 0.5 KB)
• MnDOT Design Manuals
  • Pavement Design
  • Grading & Base
  • Geotechnical
  • Concrete
  • MnDOT manuals

YouTube Videos

• "Why aren't they working on my road?"
• Frost Damage in Pavements
  • Executive Summary
  • Full Length
• Improving Asphalt Pavements in Cold Climates
• Introduction to WMA Technology
• WMA Videos
  • HMA Demonstration, Part 2 of 2 (2010) – Michigan DOT
  • WMA – WMA (Nov2013) – CIFdotorg
  • WMA (Apr2010) – MoDOT
  • WMA - chemical additives
    • Introduction to WMA Technology
    • Evotherm Chemistry Episode 1 – Introduction
    • Evotherm Chemistry Episode 2 – Surfactant Chemistry
    • Evotherm Chemistry Episode 3 – Evotherm Chemistry 101
    • Evotherm Chemistry Episode 4 – Compaction
    • The Magic Drop Test
    • Granite Construction, Ted Stevens Anchorage Int. Airport

Contacts

MnDOT District Material Engineers

Pavement Design Links

• MnDOT Pavement Design
• MnDOT Bituminous
• MnDOT Concrete
• MnDOT Grading and Base
• MnROAD
• MnDOT Research
• MnDOT Pavement Management
• University of MN Center for Transportation Studies Library
• FHWA Pavements
• LRRB
• MnDOT Library
• Pavement Interactive
• MN Asphalt Pavement Association
• Concrete Paving Association of MN
  

Training Resources

• FWD Pavement Strength Tool (PDF, 2 MB)