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Course:

Advanced Pavement ME

SAP Course Number:

78TECH400890

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Highway Design
Pavement Markings



Class Schedule


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General Information

Summary:
The goal of the Advanced Pavement ME course is to train pavement designers on the basics and fundamentals of ME-based pavement design approaches and procedures. The course explains the ME concepts used for pavement designs, forensic evaluations, and assessments of typical as well as specialized design strategies. The course focus is on the models or transfer functions described in AASHTO’s Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Interim Edition: A Manual of Practice.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Describe and understand the concepts and fundamentals of ME-based pavement design approaches
2. Define transfer function and describe how it is used within the ME-based pavement design approach
a. Relationships between pavement responses and pavement damage
b. Incremental accumulation of damage
c. Relationships between damage and pavement distress
d. Relationship between distress and smoothness
3. Identify and list the factors and inputs that have a significant effect on the calculated damage and distress
a. Material/layer properties
i. Determine/interpret material test results for defining the inputs
ii. Design/material/layer features in terms of boundary conditions and assumptions applied
b. Traffic and climate
c. Rehabilitation: field evaluation/forensic investigation to simulate the existing pavement layers
i. Deflection testing & backcalculation
ii. Distress survey (existing condition)

Teaching Method:
Instructor led

Target Audience:
Engineers that are involved in pavement design and in collecting the data in support of that design (asphalt concrete, PCC, unbound materials and soils, traffic, etc.) for new and rehabilitated asphalt concrete and PCC pavements.

Final Exam:
No



Continuing Education Credits


Miscellaneous
CEHs
Classes
After
 
CEUs
Classes
After
 
PDHs
Classes
After
 
PennDOT:
13.00
10/07/16
 

Awarding continuing education credits (PDH/CEU/CEH) to a training course or other training event does not imply or guarantee that the training course/event is approved by the Pennsylvania State Registration Board of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Land Surveyors.

According to Pennsylvania Act 25, “Credit determination for activities…shall be the responsibility of the licensee.  Continuing professional competency obtained by a licensee should maintain, improve or expand skills or knowledge obtained prior to initial licensure, including law and ethics applicable to the profession, or develop new and relevant skills and knowledge.”

For informational purposes only:1 CEU is equal to 10 hours of instruction
1 CEH is equal to 1 hour of instruction



Course Contact Information

                    For technical questions regarding this course, contact the following...
Name:
Kimberly Rice
Phone:
(717) 783-4722
Email:
RA-PDHighAdminTrain@pa.gov

                    For general questions about the Training Calendar (such as those regarding schedules,
                    locations, instructors or registrations), see Contact Information in specific classes.
 
Created
Last Modified
By Rhiannan Nearhood/PennDOT
On 10/07/16 At 03:27 PM
By Rhiannan Nearhood/PennDOT
On 11/26/19 At 03:19 PM