Announcements

The 11th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways, and Airfields ill be on June 29 - July 1, 2021 in Trondheim, Norway. Submit your abstract(s) by March 1, 2020.

More details can be found via www.bcrra.org.

There is a summer fellowship opportunity through the UNH Sustainability Fellows Program on analysis of flooded pavements. More information on the program and application instructions can be found here: https://sustainableunh.unh.edu/sustainability-fellows

Check out the Informational Webinar on January 31 at 12PM (Eastern)

Application Deadline: February 10, 2019

Do not miss the opportunity to present you work at the main pavement evaluation event of the year. Please submit your abstract before May 1, 2019 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiPd1bn-sklmqiMLjW1JaHkWPUrP13Zb07NnkTistQ_iK07w/viewform.

Held in 2002, 2010, and 2014, this conference builds on the previous conference’s accomplishments by combining the annual Road Profiler Users’ Group meeting with discussions and presentations from other disciplines of non-destructive pavement, evaluation. In addition to profiling, other topics of interest include texture and friction measurement, tire-pavement noise, ground penetrating radar (GPR), video distress rating, and structural testing. The conference welcomes representatives from government transportation agencies, academia and private industry. It will benefit end-users, operators, researchers, construction and design engineers, and manufacturers who have an interest in the equipment, methods, and use of non-destructive pavement evaluation. It is also highly recommended for consultants, contractors, and construction equipment developers who are in the business of meeting performance requirements for traveled surfaces. The conference will include equipment demonstrations at the Virginia Smart Road in Blacksburg, Virginia.

This two-day conference will cover all aspects related to measuring and analyzing the function and condition of pavement and will be structured in the following general themes:

Functional evaluation, including:

1. Emerging technologies
2. Performance Measures
3. Construction acceptance
4. Administering warranties
1. Structural analysis methods and tools, including:
   1. Emerging techniques
   2. Continuous deflection technologies and data analysis
   3. Construction acceptance
   4. Mechanistic design
2. General pavement evaluation, including:
   1. Use of pavement management to make business decisions
   2. Use of pavement management to improve network health
   3. Use of pavement data to define/refine specifications
   4. Case studies

For more information or to submit your please visit the conference website at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/pavementevaluation/program.html.