Completed and Active Research
Flexible Team
Ongoing Research
- MnROAD Reflective Cracking Challenge
- Recycled Binder Availability
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Geotech, ICT, and PM teams
- Validation of Loose Mix Aging Procedures for Cracking Resistance Evaluation in Balanced Mix Design
- 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
- Novel Methods for Adding Rejuvenators in Asphalt Mixtures with High Recycled Binder Ratios
- 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
- Asphalt Real Time Smoothness (ARTS) for Asphalt Paving, co-sponsored with Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
Completed Research
- Cold Central Plant Recycling (CCPR)
- Longitudinal Joint Construction Performance
- Tack Coats
- Mix Rejuvenator Synthesis (Phase 1)
Geotechnical Team
Ongoing Research
- Performance Evaluation of Wicking Geotextiles for Improving Drainage and Stiffness of Road Foundation with Flexible and Rigid teams
- Flooded Pavements App--Phase II with Preventive Maintenance team
- Reclamation and Recycling Techniques to Achieve Perpetual Pavements Characteristics co-sponsored with Flexible, ICT, and PM teams
- Determining Pavement Design Criteria for Recycled Aggregate Base and Large Stone Subbase
- Mechanistic Load Restriction Decision Platform for Pavement Systems Prone to Moisture Variations
- Environmental Impacts on the Performance of Pavement Foundation Layers
- Permeability of Base Aggregate and Sand
- Improve Material Inputs into Mechanistic Design Properties for Reclaimed HMA Roadways
- Continuous Moisture Measurement during Pavement Foundation Construction, co-sponsored with Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
Completed Research
Intelligent Construction Technologies Team
Ongoing Research
- 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
- Evaluation of Levels 3-4 Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV) for Soils Subgrade and Aggregate Subbase Compaction
- Support Importing, Viewing and Analysis of Dielectric Constant Data in Veta
- HD and VHD Seismic Approaches for Roadway Evaluation
- Asphalt Real Time Smoothness (ARTS) for Asphalt Paving, co-sponsored with Flexible Team
- Understanding and Improving Pavement Milling Operations, co-sponsored with Flexible Team
- Continuous Moisture Measurement during Pavement Foundation Construction, co-sponsored with Geotechnical Team
Preventive Maintenance Team
Ongoing Research
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alternative Cementitious Materials - Geopolymer Concrete
- Engineered Dowel and Tie Bars combined with LTPP SPS-2 Determination of Causes for Cracking Over Dowel Bars
- Performance Benefits of Fiber-Reinforced Thin Concrete Pavement and Overlays
- Construction Report for Jointless FRC Roundabout in Minnesota
- Compacted Concrete Pavement
- Toward the Development of Pavement-specific Synthetic Fibers
- Enhanced Entrained Air Void System Characterization for Durable Highway Concrete
- Effect of Low and Moderate Recycled Concrete Aggregate Replacement Levels on Concrete Properties