The initiative to build more concrete streets stems from the City of Overland Park’s pledge to reduce its reliance on chip seals. Chip seal is an asphalt pavement maintenance method that extends ...

Lucio Salles, assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management, and Safety, presented two research papers at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 103rd ...

TRB hosted a webinar on Thursday, December 16, 2021 that addressed the pavement aspects of roundabout design and construction. Presenters discussed designing roundabouts with innovative concrete ...

Concrete Industry Groups Introduce Web-Based Pavement Design Platform PavementDesigner.org is free of charge and was created for city, county, and consultant engineers, academia, or anyone ...

It tests the FDOT’s concrete pavement design practices and studies data to improve future materials and performance. When it is done, trucks and cars will be routed into it to test the ...

Minimizing variability will improve quality, and so the concrete pavement and cement industries — in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration and the National Concrete Pavement Technology ...

Aram Kalousdian, Editor Going from a 10-inch concrete pavement design to an 11-inch concrete pavement design can nearly double the life of the pavement. That's what Tom Van Dam, Ph.D., P.E., associate ...

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