Material Reference Library 2013-2018

The Material Reference Library was conceived and initiated under the Strategic Highway Research Program to store selected highway materials and, later, make them available for the evaluation and verification of new pavement designs and material tests that are expected to result in substantial improvement to pavement performance. The Material Reference Library was therefore conceived to maintain "standard" materials that were representative of locations throughout North America for future research. The Material Reference Library originally contained the Strategic Highway Research Program asphalt binders, aggregates, and material from Long-Term Pavement Performance General Pavement Studies and Specific Pavement Studies projects. Over time, the Material Research Library has expanded to contain the following: Strategic Highway Research Program asphalt binders and aggregates, Specific Pavement Studies materials (asphalt, aggregates, and mix), Specific Pavement Studies and General Pavement Studies cores, crumb rubber modifier samples, WesTrack samples, National Center for Asphalt Technology test track samples, Federal Highway Administration Accelerated Pavement Testing Facility samples, Western Research Institute samples, and miscellaneous samples. Many of the samples in the Materials Reference Library are from projects with performance data, which makes these samples very valuable to researchers. Requests to the Materials Reference Library come from around the world. Projects funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Federal Highway Administration make use of the materials in the Materials Research Library. At the completion of the American Association of State Highway Officials (predecessor to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) Road Test, there were no materials available to verify the models developed from the research. By maintaining the Materials Research Library, this will not happen.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Surface Transportation Research, Long-Term Pavement Performance

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $178633
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Project Managers:

  Springer, Jack

• Performing Organizations:

  Nichols Consulting Engineers

  1885 S. Arlington Avenue
  Suite 111
  Reno, NV  United States  89509
• Principal Investigators:

  Puccinelli, Jason

• Start Date: 20131001
• Expected Completion Date: 20180930
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Asphalt; Libraries; Materials; Mix design; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Referencing
• Geographic Terms: North America
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01577146
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 28 2015 11:24AM