Transportation

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 411: Microsurfacing explores highway microsurfacing project selection, design, contracting, equipment, construction, and performance measurement processes used by transportation agencies in the United States and Canada.

Microsurfacing is a polymer-modified cold-mix surface ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 603: Transfer, Development, and Splice Length for Strand/Reinforcement in High-Strength Concrete explores recommended revisions to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Bridge Design ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 678: Design of FRP Systems for Strengthening Concrete Girders in Shear offers suggested design guidelines for concrete girders strengthened in shear using externally bonded Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) systems.

The guidelines address ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 351: Precision Statements for AASHTO Standard Methods of Test T 148, T 265, T 267, AND T 283 summarizes the findings of four interlaboratory studies conducted in 2009 and 2010 ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 557: Aggregate Tests for Hot-Mix Asphalt Mixtures Used in Pavements examines performance-based procedures to test aggregates for use in pavements utilizing hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures and provides guidance on using these procedures ...

TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R26-RR-2: Guidelines for the Preservation of High-Traffic-Volume Roadways explores the state of the practice for preservation treatments on high- and low-volume asphalt and concrete roadways. The report also includes suggested guidelines ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 567: Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design examines whether changes to the recommended Superpave mix design criteria for voids in mineral aggregate, voids filled with asphalt, and air voids content might further ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 691: Mix Design Practices for Warm-Mix Asphalt explores a mix design method tailored to the unique material properties of warm mix asphalt technologies.

Warm mix asphalt (WMA) refers to asphalt concrete ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice explores the develop of a practical, economical simple performance tester (SPT) for use in routine hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mix design and ...