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Analysis of roadway departure crashes on two-lane rural roads in Texas

Description: "This three-year research effort was undertaken to identify factors that influence the number and severity of roadway departure crashes on rural two-lane highways in Texas and provide engineering countermeasures to reduce this type of crash. The study objectives were accomplished by analyzing crash, traffic flow, and geometric data between 2003 and 2008 and conducting site visits at 20 sites having the highest crash rates at four TxDOT districts."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Lord, Dominique; Brewer, Marcus A.; Fitzpatrick, Kay; Greedipally, Srinivas R. & Peng, Yichuan

Best Practice for Using RAS in HMA

Description: "The use of recycles asphalt shingles (RAS) in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of asphalt paving mixes while conserving energy and preserving the environment. This report documents the best practices for the use of RAS in HMA in terms of Ras processing, characterizing the processed RAS (binder content,gradations, and performance grad [PG]), RAS mix design, production, and field construction."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Zhou, Fujie; Button, Joe W. & Epps, Jon

Continuous prestressed concrete girder bridges. Volume 1, Literature review and preliminary designs

Description: "The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is currently designing typical highway bridge structures as simply supported using standard precast, pretension-ed girders. TxDOT is interested in developing additional economical design alternatives for longer span bridges, through the use of the continuous precast, pretension-ed concrete bridge structures that use spliced girder technology. The objectives of this portion of the study are to evaluate the current stat-of-the-art and practice relev… more
Date: October 2011
Creator: Mander, John B.; Parkar, Anagha S. & Hueste, Mary Beth D.

Determination of Minimum Height and Lateral Design Load for MASH Test Level 4 Bridge Rails

Description: "This research had the objectives of determining the minimum rail height and lateral design impact load for MASH test level 4 bridge rails. Using parametric finite element analysis and subsequent crash testing, the researchers determined the minimum recommended rail height for MASH TL-4 impact conditions to be 36 inches. Later Design impact for MASH TL-4 test conditions was determined to be 80 kips."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Bligh, Roger P.; Menges, Wanda L. & Sheikh, Nauman Mansoor

Developing a mixture design specification for flexible base construction

Description: "In the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), flexible base producers typically generate large stockpiles of material exclusively for TxDOT projects. This large "state-only" inventory often maintained by producers, along with time requirements for testing and reduced manpower within TxDOT offices, resulted in this project's investigation into a mixture-design specification for flexible base. The goals of this project are to develop a flexible base specification that reduces TxDOT's burden… more
Date: October 2011
Creator: Epps, Jon A.; Sebesta, Stephen; Sahin, Hakan; Button, Joe; Luo, Rong & Lytton, Robert

Evaluation, presentation and repair of microbial acid-produced attack of concrete

Description: This report evaluates the severity of the deterioration in bridges to determine if microbial induced deterioration (MID) is a significant contributor by visual inspection and a number of tests on twelve selected columns. This report also evaluates the effectiveness of suggested test procedures on identifying microbial attack on concrete and the integrity of deteriorated concrete due to the attack.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Hu, Jiong; Hahn, Dittmar; Rudzinski, Walter; Wang, Zhuo & Estrada, Luzelva

HeatWurx patching at two locations in San Antonio

Description: "This report documents the placing, cost, and performance of the HeatWurx pavement patching process, which uses infrared heating to make the pavement soft enough to mill and scarify so that it can be mixed with a rejuvenator and pavement millings to form a patch that stays bonded to the surrounding material."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Freeman, Thomas J. & Epps, Jon A.

Implementation of Curing, Texturing, Subbase, and Compaction Measurement Alternatives for Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement

Description: This report evaluates four different subbase types, two different concrete mix design, three different curing compounds, and four different surface textures that researchers tested on a new section of continuously reinforced concrete pavement.
Date: April 2013
Creator: Zollinger, Dan; Won, Mooncheol; Ley, Tyler; Riding, Kyle; Wimsatt, Andrew; Zhou, Wujun et al.

Pavement repair strategies for selected distresses in FM roadways

Description: "Expansive soil is considered one of the most common causes of pavement distresses in FM roadways. Depending upon the moisture level, expansive soils will experience changes in volume due to moisture fluctuations from seasonal variations. The objective of this research was to evaluate existing repair projects on selected FM roadways. Those roadways experienced failures in the form of fatigue and rutting in the wheel path, and longitudinal (faulted) cracking including edge cracking. The causes … more
Date: June 2012
Creator: Dessouky, Samer; Oh, Jeong Ho; Yang, Mijia; Ilias, Mohammad; Lee, Sang Ick; Freeman, Tom et al.

Performance of lap splices in large-scale column specimens affectedby ASR and/or DEF

Description: "This research program conducted a large experimental program, which consisted of the design, construction, curing, deterioration, and structural load testing of 16 large-scale column specimens with a critical lap splice region, and then compared and calibrated models developed in the analytical program with the experimental behavior. Specimens were carefully instrumented both internally and externally to monitor the strain behavior of the concrete and reinforcing steel from specimen constructi… more
Date: June 2012
Creator: Bracci, Joseph M.; Gardoni, Paolo; Eck, Kathleen M. & Trejo, David

Recommendations for design, construction, and maintenance of bridge approach slabs

Description: Report regarding treatment methods for controlling settlements of approach slabs of new bridge construction. The report is presented in two parts, with the first part concerns the compiling and presentation of documented information while the second part deals with field evaluation of methods to reduce settlement.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Puppala, Anand J.; Archeewa, Ekarut; Saride, Sireesh; Hoyos, Laureano R., 1972- & Nazarian, Soheil, 1955-

Texas Department of Transportation administration research: tasks completed Fiscal Year 2010

Description: "This research project evaluates numerous transportation issues and develops findings and/or recommendations based on results. This project has been structured to address some of the emerging, critical, and unique considerations related to transportation."
Date: February 2011
Creator: Baker, Richard; Ding, Liang; Epps, Jon; Estakhri, Cindy K.; Fry, Gray; Geiselbrecht, Tina et al.

Texas Flexible Pavements and Overlays: Year 1 Report -- Test Sections, Data Collection, Analyses, and Data Storage System

Description: "This report provides a documentation of the work completed in Year 1 of the project including the following: 1) Literature review; 2) development of data collection and analysis plans, and 3) field test sections."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Walubita, Lubinda F.; Das, Gautam; Espinoza, Elida; Oh, Jeongho; Lee, Sang Ick; Scullion, Tom et al.
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