2020 NRRA Pavement Workshop
Due to safety precautions and travel restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, this workshop was moved entirely online.
This is a complete calendar of events that replaced the in-person workshop activities. These webinars were recorded and made available on the NRRA YouTube channel. Each recording is also linked directly below.
MAY
May 13 | Rigid Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
- Manik Barman, Ph.D. (U of MN-Duluth) - Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Section & Future Direction
- Sheue Torng Lee, P.E. (WSB) - CPR on BOCA Synthesis
- Seyedhamed Sadati, Ph.D. (Iowa State) - Joint-less Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Roundabout
May 19 | "Principles of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Its Application in Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering" (Geotech Team)
View the presentation slides (pdf) from this webinar.
Instructors: William J. Likos (UW-Madison), Bora Cetin (MSU), John Siekmeier (MnDOT), Raul Velasquez (MnDOT), and Terry Beaudry (MnDOT)
*Due to a technical error, this webinar was not recorded successfully.
JUNE
June 3 | Flexible Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
- Eshan Dave, Ph.D. (UNH) - Developing Best Practices for Rehabilitation of Concrete with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Overlays related to Density and Reflective Cracking
- Derek Tompkins (American Engineering Testing) - Cold Central Plant Recycling (CCPR)
- Quick project updates:
- Eshan Dave, Ph.D. (UNH) - Mix Rejuvenator Test Sections (Phase II)
- Eshan Dave, Ph.D. (UNH) - An Innovative Practical Approach to Assessing Bitumen Compatibility as a Means of Material Specification
- Hassan Tabatabaee, Ph.D. (Cargill) - Cold Asphalt Recycling Technologies using Rejuvenating Asphalt Emulsion: Impact, Implementation, Specification
June 3 | Rigid Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
- John Donahue (MoDOT) – Compacted Concrete Pavement
- Joe Korzilius (SRF) – Design and Performance of Unbonded Concrete Overlays
- Lev Khazanovich, Ph.D. (UPitt) – Early Opening Strength to Traffic
June 3 | Preventive Maintenance Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
- WSB - Service Life Enhancement of Substrates Overlaid with Thin Overlays
- SRF - Maintaining Poor Pavements
- WSB - Concrete Pavement Restoration (CPR) for Bonded Concrete Overlays of Asphalt
- SRF (TL) - Surface Characteristics of Diamond Ground PCC Surfaces
- WSB - Spray on Rejuvenator Synthesis
June 18 | "Paver Technology to Solve Segregation and Smoothness Issues" (ICT Team)
Speakers: Laikram Narsingh (Wirtgen Group), Henry Polk (BoMag), Todd Mansell (CAT)
June 24 | "Innovations in Concrete Pavements" (Rigid Team)
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Ph.D. (Iowa State)
June 24 | "The Latest in Design Procedures for Rigid Pavements" (Rigid Team)
Speakers: Julie Vandenbossche, Ph.D. (UPitt) and Lev Khazanovich, Ph.D. (UPitt)
- PittRigid
- BCOA-ME
- UBOLDesign
JULY
July 8 | "Intelligent Construction Technologies (ICT) and What We Learned" (ICT Team)
Moderator: George Chang, Ph.D. (The Transtec Group)
- State Update: Continuous Asphalt Compaction Assessment using Dielectric Profile Method with Craig Landefeld (Ohio DOT)
- Improving Workmanship using the Paver Mounted Thermal Profile Method with Craig Landefeld (Ohio DOT) and Ed Morison (Shelly and Sands)
- Florida DOT’s Experience with e-Ticketing with Richard Hewitt (Florida DOT)
July 21 | Research Pays Off: Pavement Workshop Invited Speaker - "Development of a Sustainable Procurement Roadmap using Life Cycle Assessment based Environmental Product Declarations"
Speaker: Amlan Mukherjee, Ph.D., P.E, Michigan Technical University
AUGUST
August 12 | "Best Practices of AMG Milling and Paving from Design to Construction" (ICT Team)
Moderator: Curt Turgeon (MnDOT)
Speakers: Kyle Klasen (WSB and Associates), Thomas Abell (Ziegler | CAT), Dan Schellhammer (Midstate Reclamation & Trucking, Inc.)
SEPTEMBER
September 3 | ICT Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
Speaker: Choon Park, Ph.D. (Park Seismic) – Seismic Approach to Quality Management of Asphalt Pavements
September 15 | Research Pays Off: Pavement Workshop Invited Speaker - "The Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and Pavement Research"
Speaker: Cheryl Allen Richter, Ph.D., P.E., FHWA
September 30 | ICT Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates
Speakers: Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D. (UTEP) and George Chang, Ph.D. (The Transtec Group) – Evaluation of Levels 3-4 Intelligent Compaction Measurement Values (ICMV) for Soils Subgrade and Aggregate Subbase Compaction