International Workshop on the Use of Wide-Base Tires
Location
Federal Highway Administration
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
October 25-26, 2007
Purpose
Provide a venue for the exchange of ideas on the use and performance of wide-base tires on heavy trucks, both domestically and internationally. This includes the current state of knowledge on the pavement response to these tires. This will allow us to provide better direction for the current and future research in this field. The workshop interest will focus on the effect of wide-base tires on pavement performance, pavement design, environment, safety, freight, and highway policy.
Objectives
1. Identify the state of the practice of wide-base tires both domestically and internationally, both in terms of tire configuration and market share and demand.
2. Identify relevant recent and current national and international research efforts on wide-base tires.
3. Identify the research needs as to the effectiveness and impact of using wide-base tires.
Desired Outcomes
1. Provide direction of future research related to wide-base tires to improve our understanding of their impact on pavement and the environment and the implications for their increased use on infrastructure, the trucking industry, and the environment.
2. Establish collaboration between meeting attendees to initiate the research.
3. Communicate the results of this workshop through distribution of the minutes, presentations and supporting reference documents on the Asphalt Research Consortium (ARC) website and portable media.
An Intensive Course on: Advanced Constitutive Modeling and Characterization of Asphaltic Materials
Location
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA
September 21-25, 2009
Course Content
The course is under the auspices of the ISAP TC Constitutive Modeling of Asphaltic Materials and aims at engineers, scientists, and researchers who want to familiarize themselves with the mathematics, computational methods and characterization techniques associated with constitutive modeling of asphaltic materials. This is of paramount importance for the pavement design community as it moves to mechanistic-empirical and, ultimately, fully mechanistic pavement modeling.
In the course, a team of international experts shall explain the mathematical fundamentals and state-of-the-art material characterization techniques of asphaltic materials. The course includes hands-on laboratory sessions.
Course Organizers
Eyad Masad & Dallas Little - Texas A&M University, USA
Tom Scarpas & Niki Kringos - TU Delft, The Netherlands:
