Optimized Taconite-Based Pavement Repair Compound and Deployment System
National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI) has developed and patented a rigid, taconite mineral-based, all season rapid setting pavement repair compound that contains neither petroleum nor portland cement. As such, its environmental footprint is much smaller than cold mix or hot mix asphalt products, mastic, and portland cement-based repair compounds. The proposed project will: 1) refine NRRI's taconite-based repair compound, with an emphasis on developing and optimizing a finer-grained ("pumpable/extrudable") formulation; and 2) develop and field test/demonstrate a low-cost mechanized system that can efficiently mix and a place the repair compound in larger quantities while minimizing or eliminating direct contact and hand-mixing by maintenance personnel.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $100,000
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Contract Numbers:
99008 WO#241
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Sponsor Organizations:
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St. Paul, Minnesota United States 55155-1899 -
Managing Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Project Managers:
Holdhusen, Bruce
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Performing Organizations:
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Swenson College of Civil Engineering
1405 University Drive
Duluth, MN United States 55812 -
Principal Investigators:
Zanko, Lawrence
- Start Date: 20160512
- Expected Completion Date: 20190831
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Composite pavements; Maintenance personnel; Optimization; Pavement design; Pavement maintenance; Tack coats
- Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Materials; Pavements;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01599966
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 99008 WO#241
- Files: RiP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: May 24 2016 9:42AM