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What’s New at ISCP Organizational Member
Profile: Fugro Consultants Honorary Member Profiles:
Kadiyali and Wilk Research News Industry Notes Upcoming Events
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President’s Message
The Society, ever moving forward, has made great strides
both organizationally and internationally this year. We had a very successful Strategic Planning
Meeting in South Africa (at the Bakubung Bush Lodge on a game preserve),
which was followed by a well-attended 2-day seminar in Johannesburg that
covered a variety of concrete technical issues and featured presentations
by many of the Board members and
participants from the Bakubung meeting.
The work accomplished at the day-and-a-half planning meeting was
significant and will have far-reaching effects on the way Society business is
conducted in the future. The Society also co-sponsored seminars and workshops in We are looking forward to next year and the preparations
in store for the 9th International Conference in Dan Zollinger President, ISCP Annual Board and Membership Meeting Scheduled ISCP’s annual
Board and Membership Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 12, 2008 at
17h30 (Eastern Standard Time) in the Thurgood Marshall North room of the
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.. The meeting agenda highlights are: ·
Updates
on the 9th International Conference and the 2nd Pre-Conference Workshop ·
Presentation
and discussion of the 2008 budget ·
Summary
of the 2007 Strategic Planning Meeting results ·
Induction
of new honorary members: -Professor
Willy Wilk (Honorary Professor, Federal Institute of Technology – -Dr.
L.R. Kadiyali (President, L.R. Kadiyali and Associates, ·
Discussion
of possible affiliations with International Chapters and other organizations Details on the
meeting will be posted on the ISCP website at www.concretepavements.org. ISCP Election Results A total of 63
ballots were returned for these elections.
The following ISCP members have now been elected to a 4-year term on
the Board of Directors, effective February 1, 2008: ·
Jamshid
Armaghani – USA ·
Neeraj
Buch – USA ·
Jake
Hiller – USA ·
Bryan
Perrie – South Africa ·
Johan
Silfwerbrand – Sweden ·
Tim
Smith – Canada ·
George
Vorobieff – Australia Several write-in
candidates also received votes including Lambert Houben – The Netherlands,
Erwin Kohler – USA, Bo Tian – China, and Adrian Van Leest – The Netherlands. The Society
expresses sincere thanks and deep appreciation to outgoing Board members Fred
Hejl – USA, Gerry Krozel –USA, Tatsuo Nishizawa – Japan, and Leif Wathne –
USA. These members have agreed to
serve as Industry Liasons and Local/Regional ISCP Coordinators to help
support the mission of the ISCP. In addition, the
proposal for a new mission statement was adopted to reflect the broadening scope of ISCP
activities, which have moved well beyond the original emphasis on the
organization and hosting of the quadrennial International Conference (although
that will continue to be a major activity of the Society). The new mission statement reads as follows: “The mission of the society is to facilitate the
advancement of knowledge and technology related to concrete pavements through
education, technology transfer and research at an international level. “The Society will gather and disseminate information
for the concrete pavement community. The Society’s efforts will promote
technological advancements and competence of its members leading to improved
concrete pavement performance. “ Post-Meeting Social Dinner – RSVP now! The annual
business meeting will be followed by an informal social dinner at 20h00 at
the Pesto Ristorante on Renew your ISCP Membership for 2008 Now! If you have not
already prepaid or renewed your membership for 2008, please remember to do so
before January 31, 2008 because
only continuing (2007) members who renew by that date will be entitled to
register for the 9th International Conference at the member rate (a $100
savings). Membership
renewals and 2008 membership cards are now being mailed, but you can beat the
rush and renew online at www.concretepavements.org. Remember that you can renew by FAX, by mail
or online at the ISCP website using checks, money order or credit card (wire
transfers are discouraged because of high bank fees). Thank you, in
advance, to all new and renewing ISCP members. Your support of ISCP’s mission and
activities helps to advance the promotion of good concrete pavement
technology around the world and is greatly appreciated! Changes in the E-Newsletter Editorial Group After nearly four
years, Dr. Due to Dr. Kohler’s
departure, Assistant Editor The Society and
all of us involved with the e-Newsletter would like to thank Dr. Kohler for
his efforts and friendship over these past years and wish him the best with
his new endeavors. E-Newsletter Assistant Editor(s) Wanted! ISCP is looking
for one or more volunteers to serve as Assistant Editor(s) of the ISCP
e-newsletter. This position assists
the Editor and Associate Editor in gathering, writing and/or editing articles
concerning news, activities and technical developments that are of interest
to ISCP members. Candidates should
work in (or be studying) an area closely related to concrete pavements, have
a good command of English, and be willing to serve ISCP in this capacity for
at least two years. This position can
be considered a possible stepping stone to Society positions with greater
responsibility. Interested members
should contact the ISCP Secretary at mbsnyder@concretepavements.org before the ISCP Annual
Business Meeting on Saturday January 12, 2008.
Fugro Consultants
has provided pavement engineering-related services for more than 20 years,
including non-destructive pavement evaluations, pavement design, pavement
rehabilitation, pavement management, research, materials sampling, and
laboratory testing. As part of the
non-destructive pavement evaluation services, Fugro Consultants operates
falling weight deflectometers, ground penetrating radar, automated distress
data collection vehicles, video inspection equipment for subsurface edge
drain systems, roadway profilers, and also performs manual distress
surveys. Fugro has developed new and
rehabilitation pavement designs for many challenging projects, including toll
roads, airports, and ports. Fugro
provides the technical expertise to collect all the required data to
implement pavement management systems for airfields, cities, and
municipalities. Additionally, Fugro is
an active member of the Texas Council of Engineering Laboratories and our
primary facilities are accredited by AASHTO, AMRL, and CCRL. For more
information about the Fugro Consultants Pavement Group, go to www.bre.fugro.com.
The ISCP Board of
Directors recently elected Dr. L. R. Kadiyali (India) and Professor Willy
Wilk (Switzerland) to Honorary Member status, the Society’s highest level of
recognition. Induction will take place
at the Society’s Annual Business Meeting in Washington, D.C. on January 12,
2008, and these men will be guests of honor at the Social Dinner following
the meeting. Brief summaries of
Dr. Kadiyali’s and Professor Wilk’s background and accomplishments follow. Dr. L. R. Kadiyali
After retiring
from government service, he started his own consulting firm, which has been
involved with many prestigious projects, such as the implementation of the
National Highway Development Programme in Dr. Kadiyali has
pioneered the cause for the introduction of cement concrete roads in L.R. has served as
the Convenor of the Rigid Pavement Committee of the Indian Roads Congress for
the past six years and, during that period, he has been responsible for
bringing out several guidelines and codes of practice covering several
aspects of design and construction of concrete roads. In summary, Dr.
Kadiyali has made a significant impact on Indian concrete pavement technology
through his technical society activities, numerous publications, and as a
leading spokesman for use of concrete pavements in Professor Willy Wilk
During the period
1970-1994, Mr. Wilk was the Manager-Director of the TFB (Portland Cement
Association of Switzerland). He also
served as the Technical Director of the enterprise Betonstrasse AG (i.e.,
Roads in Concrete, Inc.), which was formerly the Centre for Research,
Development and Consulting in Concrete Technology, an arm of the Swiss Cement
Industry that served as a concrete pavement technology reference for
Switzerland and other European countries. From 1971 to 1995,
Professor Wilk also served the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, first
as a lecturer (1971 to 1986) before achieving the position of Honorary
Professor in 1986 and becoming the professor of Professor Wilk has
had made many important contributions to concrete paving technology. He has been involved in many high-profile
international projects involving the assessment of concrete pavement quality,
analyses of the cracking behaviour of concrete affected with alkali-silica
reactivity, research leading to the restoration of historic viaducts and
bridges, and many urban concrete highway and airfield pavement design and
construction projects. He has been a
long-standing member of the PIARC Technical Committee on Concrete Roads (C-7)
and has made enormous contributions to the development of standards for
concrete roads through his membership with the Switzerland Standardization
office (VSS). In addition, he served
as the editor of the Swiss-edited technical magazine “Routes en Béton”
(“Concrete Roads”) for several years, which has helped to disseminate good
practices for concrete road design and construction in In summary, Prof.
Wilk has devoted his professional life to concrete technology, with special
regards to concrete for airfields and highway. His contributions to the development of
Swiss and European standards for concrete materials and designs, his enthusiasm
for these same topics as a professor, and his involvement in many
international highway and airfield design and construction projects have made
a significant impact in Switzerland, throughout Europe, and around the
world. For all of these reasons and more,
ISCP is proud to welcome Professor Willy Wilk as an Honorary Member!
Quiet Concrete
at MnROAD
In June 2007, an
innovative diamond grinding test was performed on a low-volume road cell at the
Minnesota Department of Transportation’s MnROAD facility. Subsequently in
October, two cells of MnROAD’s mainline Interstate 94 section were ground as
part of a transportation pooled fund study (TPF 5-134) whose participants
include Mn/DOT as lead state, the Texas Department of Transportation, the
Federal Highway Administration and the American Concrete Paving Association.
The low-volume road (LVR) experiment consisted of four sections: a
transversely tined surface, a conventional grinding surface and two
variations of New Generation Concrete Surface. The two NGCS sections were
different only in the sense that the flush grind and groove process was
achieved either in one or two passes. The mainline (ML) experiment ground a
full-width cell to the conventional configuration and a contiguous cell to
the innovative configuration. A report being prepared by Mn/DOT shows that
the new grinding configuration is a quiet pavement solution. At 98.5 dB(A)
measured by the On-Board-Sound-Intensity method, the single pass New
Generation Concrete Surface (NGCS) is the quietest concrete pavement in the Prepared by:
Bernard Izevbekhai, bernard.izevbekhai@dot.state.mn.us Thin Concrete
Pavements (TCP) Experiment Underway at U of Illinois The Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering
Laboratory (ATREL) is the site of cutting-edge research
on a new design concept known as Thin Concrete Pavements (TCP). Comercial TCPavements Ltda, based in Santiago, Chile, is sponsoring this project to
establish design guidelines for using TCP.
Concrete pavements are typically designed with minimum
thicknesses of 6 inches for low volume roads and 8 to 12 inches for higher
volume applications and with slab sizes of 12 feet wide by 15 feet long.
Because larger slab sizes increase the curling and load stresses in concrete
pavements, an alternative approach to minimizing concrete slab thickness is
to reduce the slab panel size. In mid-October, a research team led by University of
Illinois Professor Jeff Roesler and Graduate Research Assistant Victor
Cervantes supervised the construction of three consecutive test sections
where the slab panel size was fixed at 6 feet by 6 feet. The researchers will
use these sections to study three primary variables: concrete thickness (8,
15, and 20 cm), concrete mixture (plain versus fiber-reinforced concrete),
and base stiffness (aggregate base versus asphalt concrete base). The test
sections were embedded with instruments to measure factors that affect
curling (including temperature, deflections, and strain) and will be loaded
with the Accelerated Transportation Loading ASsembly (ATLAS), which simulates
the effects of real-life traffic. The researchers will use the test results
to determine the optimal thickness for TCP at a given traffic level. Source:
http://www.ict.uiuc.edu/projectspotlight/111507spotlight.html
ASTM
C09 Organizes Pervious Pavement Subcommittee A new subcommittee
for ASTM Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates has been created
this year on standards activity surrounding pervious concrete mixes and
pavements. The new subcommittee has
begun developing proposals for test methods on compressive strength, fresh
unit weight, permeability-field method, hardened unit weight and porosity,
lab permeability, flexural strength, and paste-aggregate ratio acceptance
tests. The subcommittee has also
looked into consolidation methods to use in the laboratory. So far they have found that the For more information about ASTM visit www.astm.org. PCA
Pervious Concrete Reference Tool Available The Portland Cement Association has developed a
reference tool for pervious concrete.
The CD is available to order online.
It contains an analysis tool for hydraulic design, intended to
illustrate the behavior of pervious concrete systems in relatively simple
situations. For more information about
the CD see www.cement.org/bookstore/profile.asp?itemid=CD063. President Zollinger named ACI Fellow Congratulations to
ISCP President Dan Zollinger who was recently elected to Fellowship in the
American Concrete Institute (ACI). An ACI Fellow is nominated and elected by
the ACI Board of Direction as someone who made outstanding contributions to
the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the
areas of education, research, development, design, construction, or
management. In addition, an ACI Fellow has made significant contributions to
ACI through committees and/or local chapters. Advances
in Cement Based Materials and Applications in Civil Infrastructure (ACBM-ACI) http://www.acb-aci.org/index.htm 87th
Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Saturday, January
12, 2008 at 17h30 (Eastern Standard Time) Thurgood Marshall
North room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, D.C. USA 7th
Annual International Conference on Sustainable Aggregates, Pavement
Engineering and Asphalt Technology February 20-21, 2008 in Liverpool,
England, UK http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/blt/peat/index.htm 8th
Global Cement Conference 2nd
International Symposium on Ultra High Performance Concrete March 5-7,
2008 in Kassel, Germany ACI Spring
Convention: "Design and Construction Compatibility" March 30 - First
International Symposium on Transportation and Development Innovative
Practices 11th
International Conference on Durability of Building Materials Symposium
on Mechanics of Pavements and Paving Materials During the inaugural International
Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08) 10th
International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in
Transportation - AATT 2008 6th
RILEM International Conference on Pavement Cracking 13th
International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete 2008
(ICAAR) June 16-19,
2008 in Trondheim, Norway 2nd
International Conference on "Advances in Concrete and Structures" June 19-21,
2008 in Changsha, China 6th
International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/pavement/icpt2008.html
http://www.concretepavements.org/9thiccp/
Organized by ISCP August 17-21,
2008 in San Francisco, California, USA http://www.concretepavements.org/9thiccp/ 8th
International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability of Concrete and
Concrete Structures (CONCREEP 8) September 30 - http://concrete-lab.civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concreep8/ 3rd
International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing ASCE
TD&I Pavement Conference October 15-18, 2008 in Bellevue,
Washington, USA http://content.asce.org/conferences/pavements2008/
Organized by ISCP Tentatively scheduled for August 2012 in http://www.concretepavements.org/ If you wish to
submit an announcement and/or link for an upcoming conference, meeting, or
call for papers for the next ISCP e-newsletter, please contact us at newsletter@concretepavements.org. The
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