Caltrans Mechanistic-Empirical (ME) Design - Phase 2 Implementation

Mechanistic-empirical (ME) pavement design will foster better pavement performance using traditional and innovation materials and designs, lead to better performance prediction (to support the Caltrans PMS, life cycle costs, and budgets), and improve cost-efficiency by producing less costly designs. This research will help Caltrans implement ME applications as mandated in the Caltrans Issue Memo from 2005 that adopted implementing ME along with workplan and schedule. Full implementation is expected to take 5 years. This project includes: produce a simplified tool for flexible pavement design based on ME; update catalog for concrete pavement design; update field calibration and comparison of ME applications; show how current practice results differ from ME for new and rehabilitation design; and produce a library of ME inputs for typical Caltrans materials.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $2010887.00
• Contract Numbers:

  SPE No. 3.4

• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Project Managers:

  Holland, T

• Performing Organizations:

  Regents of the University of California, Davis

  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Harvey, John

• Start Date: 20070524
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20111031
• Source Data: RiP Project 22792

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Pavement design; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Rehabilitation (Maintenance); Technological innovations
• Identifier Terms: California Department of Transportation; Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01466260
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPE No. 3.4
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:13PM