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NRRA Pavement Workshop

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

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

June 3 | Rigid Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates

June 3 | Preventive Maintenance Team Meeting - Extended Project Updates

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 Quality of Work 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