Sunday, July 20, 2025 |
8:00 am – 4:00 pm |
Registration |
PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Introductions |
| 9:15 am – 9:45 am |
Introduction to Accelerated Pavement Testing |
9:45 am – 10:15 am |
Establishing Accelerated Pavement Testing Program
- MnROAD’s Long Term Partnerships – Template for APT Facilities
- Technical and Financial Considerations to Implement an Accelerated Pavement Testing Program
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| 10:15 am- 10:30 am |
Morning Break |
10:30 am-11:30 am |
Instrumentation, Data Collection, and Management
- Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Instrumentation and Data Acquisition at the MnROAD Facility
- Experience with Pavement Instrumentation
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| 11:30 pm – 1:00 pm |
Lunch (On Your Own) |
| 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
APT Facility Updates |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm |
Sustaining Accelerated Pavement Testing Program |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm |
Open Discussion |
Monday, July 21, 2025 |
7:00 am –3:00 pm |
Registration |
7:00 am – 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am –8:30 am |
Welcome |
8:30 am – 9:00 am |
Opening Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: David Jones, University of California-Davis |
9:00 am – 10:15 am |
Session 1: Worldwide Accelerated Pavement Testing Experiences
- Insights from the New Accelerated Pavement Testing Facility at ÉTS in Canada
- Empirically Accelerated Pavement Testing Track for Evaluating the Long-Term Pavement Durability
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10:15 am – 10:45 am |
Break |
10:45 am – 12:00 pm |
Session 2: Innovative Materials
- Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) of a Test Section Surfaced with an Asphalt Wearing Coarse Containing Plastic Waste Incorporated using the ‘Wet Method’
- Specification and Product Development and Verification Through Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Performance of Flexible Pavement Insulated with Foam Glass Aggregates
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
1:00pm – 2:45pm |
Session 3: Rigid and Airfield Pavements
- Implications of using Different Effective Curves for Response and Performance Prediction in Rigid Airfield Pavements
- Accelerated Pavement Testing for the Evaluation of the Structural Performance of an Innovative Tramway Structure under Road Traffic and Daily Thermal Loadings
- A Markovian Exploration of Pavement Condition Trends in Various Pavements at the MnROAD Research Facility
- Relating Structural Response of Accelerated Pavement Testing to Live Aircraft Traffic by Layered Viscoelastic Analysis
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2:45 pm – 3:15 pm |
Break |
3:15 pm to 5:00 pm |
Poster Session
- Full-Scale Construction and Accelerated Pavement Testing Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Asphalt Mixtures
- Instrumentation and Thermal Evaluation of Full-Scale Insulated Asphalt Pavements
- Evaluation of Alternative Pavement Designs using Accelerated Pavement Testing in South Africa
- Evaluating the Effects of Vehicle Speed on Dynamic Strain Response in Concrete Pavements
- 3D-Finite Element Model to Simulate Surface Pavement Deflection Velocity Under a Full-Scale Pavement Testing Facility
- APT Evaluation of the Contribution of a Paving Grid to the Life of Asphalt Overlays on Flexible Pavement Structures
- Comparative Effects of Traffic Simulation at Two Scales on ERS Pavements: An APT Study with Fatigue Carousel and FABAC Machine
- Evaluation of the Cracking Resistance of the Asphalt Mixture with Fibers and High Polymers
- Structural Responses in Flexible Pavements under Variable Loading, Tire Pressures, Speeds, and Pavement Temperatures
- Evaluation of Multi-shape Geogrids for Base Stabilization in Flexible Pavements
- Accelerated Pavement Testing of Chemical Stabilized Full-Depth Reclamation Layer
- Field Validation and Evaluation of Full-scale Sections of Full-depth Porous Asphalt Pavement for High-Traffic Volume Roadways using Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Dual Model Approach to Asphalt Pavement Intelligent Compaction: Connecting FHWA’s Pavement Testing Facility and Lab Mix Design
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Reception |
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 |
7:00am – 4:00pm |
Registration |
7:00am – 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am - 11:45 am |
National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Track, and Auburn Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory Tour National Center for Asphalt Technology NCAT's Research Center and Test Track is one of the world's leading institutions for asphalt pavement research. NCAT is fully equipped with the latest laboratory and field testing equipment for:
- Pavement engineering and forensic analysis
Attendees will have the chance to explore the 1.7-mile track, where 200-foot test sections funded by highway agencies and industry sponsors provide real-world data. Auburn University Advanced Structural Engineering Lab The Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory (ASEL) at Auburn University is a 45,000 square-foot state-of-the-art facility for experimental characterization and performance testing of:
- Structural components and systems
- Integrated soil-structure systems.
The tour will include several demonstrations of ASELs testing capabilities including: the Vulcan High Bay Laboratory, Structural Concrete Testing Laboratory, and a demonstration of the high strain rate universal testing machine for blast research. |
11:45 am – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm |
Session 4: Accelerated Pavement Testing of Flexible Pavement
- Stone-matrix Asphalt (SMA) Response to Various Loading Configurations
- Full-Scale Construction and Evaluation of Highly Elastic Asphalt Mixtures at Alaska
- Constructing New Test Sections with Deliberate Distress
- A Historical Overview of the Diverse Perpetual Pavements on the NCAT Pavement Test Track
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2:45 pm – 3:15 pm |
Break |
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm |
Session 5: Instrumentation, Data Processing, and Modeling
- Instrumentation of Laser Doppler Vibrometer for Measuring Surface Pavement Deflection Velocity Under a Full-Scale Pavement Testing Facility
- Mechanistic Responses of Chemical Stabilized Full-Depth Reclamation Pavements
- Modeling Pavement Structural Responses in Pavement Testing Facility (PTF) at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 |
7:00 am – 1:00 pm |
Registration |
7:00 am – 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am – 8:30 am |
Keynote Plenary Session Keynote Speaker: David Timm, Auburn University |
8:30 am – 10:00 am |
Session 6: Accelerated Pavement Testing of Innovative Solutions
- Full-Scale Laboratory Testing of eRoad Pavement Structures Using a Heavy Vehicle Simulator: Evaluating the Performance of Embedded Inductive Charging Coils under Dynamic Loading
- Evaluation of the Mechanical Response of Inductive Electric Road Systems (ERS) Using APT Tests
- Accelerated Pavement Testing of Electrically Conductive Asphalt (ECA) Pavements in New Jersey
- Evaluation of Three Lightweight Airfield Matting Systems under Simulated F-35B Loading using Full-Scale Accelerated Traffic Application
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10:00 am – 10:30 am |
Break |
10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Session 7: Past, Present, Future |
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm |
Closing Remarks & Adjournment |
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm |
APT Pooled Fund Meeting |
