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The Pavement ME Design Task Force is continually taking action to improve the software and welcomes suggestions from users. Suggestions are reviewed and prioritized at each Pavement ME Design Task Force meeting. Submit suggestions to Ryan Fragapane or any Pavement ME Design Task Force member. Feature ideas may also be submitted through the Pavement ME Design website.
Clark Morrison, P.E. North Carolina DOT, Chairperson
Hari Nair, P.E.
Virginia DOT, Co-Chairperson
Patrick Bierl, P.E.
Ohio DOT
Susanne Chan, Eng.
Ontario MOT, TAC Liaison
Kumar Dave, P.E.,
Indiana DOT
The discussion forum location for PMED is located at www.engineering.stackexchange.com.If you have questions, please post them on the new site with the “pavement” tag.
ARA suggests posting any pavement engineering and/or Pavement ME Design questions on the site. This forum is for civil engineers interested in pavement design and provides a global community discussion for pavement design.
Two significant activities are being implemented for rigid pavements in FY 2022. A brief update on the enhancements is summarized below.
- Integrating the results from NCHRP 1-51 on the bonding and interaction between the PCC slab and base layer.
- The integration of the new JPCP cracking model within the PMED framework has been completed. Detailed testing of the new model inputs and outputs are ongoing throughout the global recalibration efforts.
Two additional webinars are scheduled for this fiscal year. The webinar topics are selected based on feedback from webinar poll question responses, user group meetings, and commonly asked questions.
The next webinar, Composite Pavement Design and the AASHTOWare PMED Software, will be held on May 26, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Central. This webinar will provide an overview and use of the PMED software for the design and evaluation of new composite pavements as defined within the SHRP2 program under R21.
The team presented a demonstration of PMED v3.0 at the annual AASHTO Pavement ME User Group meeting on December 14-16, 2021. A full demo of the application was also given at the bi-annual task force meeting. The system is now beta complete and the production multi-tenant web server architecture is being prepared for initial deployment and closed beta testing. Information on subscription models and IT related data will be posted on the PMED website soon.
The MEPDG Clearinghouse is a great resource to see what research has been done by state highway agencies for implementing the Pavement ME Design. Some topics include, local calibration, input characterization, laboratory testing, traffic input collection and many, many, more. Please visit the ME Clearing house website to learn about the research that has been completed in recent years
The Pavement ME Design team has delivered multiple demonstrations/webinars to different agencies in North America, as well as in other countries, over the past couple of years. If your agency is interested in hosting a virtual demonstration in using the software for design, you are encouraged to contact Mr. Ryan Fragapane, rfragapane@aashto.org 202.624.3632.
Chadwick Becker
pavementmedesign@ara.com
Phone: (217) 356-4500
An important update: the MERRA2 climate data set is being directly integrated into the PMED software via the AASHTOWare Data Integration Framework for generating climate data from the MERRA2 climatic data set. Climate data will be pulled on demand from the FHWA InfoPave website. Selecting climate will be a simple two-click process with no files to download or manage.
Service units are available for purchase through AASHTO for implementing and using the Pavement ME Design software package. Many state agencies have already purchased service units, and these agencies can contact AASHTO to redeem them for implementation support.
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