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• ♦Manual Notice2006-1
• ►1. Introduction
  • ►1. Guide Overview
    • ♦Purpose
    • ♦Organization
  • ►2. Training
    • ♦Overview
  • ►3. Contacts
    • ♦Contacts for Questions and Comments
• ►2. Pavement Design Process
  • ♦1. Introduction
  • ►2. District Pavement Engineer’s Role
    • ♦History
    • ♦Responsibilities
    • ♦District Pavement Engineer (DPE) Certification
  • ►3. Pavement Types
    • ♦Flexible Pavement
    • ♦Rigid Pavement
    • ♦Rigid and Flexible Pavement Characteristics
  • ►4. Pavement Type Selection
    • ♦Principal Factors
    • ♦Life-cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
  • ►5. Approved Pavement Design Methods
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Flexible Pavement System – Windows version (FPS-19W)
    • ♦AASHTO Design Procedure
    • ♦Modified Texas Triaxial Design Method
  • ►6. Pavement Design Categories
    • ♦Definitions
    • ♦Example of Conditions for Each Pavement Design’s Usage
  • ►7. Information Needed for Pavement Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Traffic Loads
    • ♦Serviceability Index
    • ♦Material Characterization
    • ►Drainage Characteristics
  • ►8. Pavement Design Reports
    • ♦Projects Requiring Pavement Design and Pavement Design Reports
    • ♦Pavement Design Report and Other Documentation
    • ♦Completing the Pavement Design Report
    • ♦Pavement Design Report Review and Archive
• ►3. Materials Investigation and Selection Information
  • ♦1. Introduction
  • ►2. Geotechnical Investigation for Pavement Structures
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Preliminary Investigation
    • ♦Subsurface Exploration
    • ♦Stabilization Guidelines
    • ♦Geotechnical Summary Report for Pavement Design Development
  • ♦3. Flexible (Unbound) Base Selection
  • ►4. Performance Graded Binders (PG Binders)
    • ♦General
    • ♦Selecting a PG Binder
  • ►5. Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete Pavement Mixtures
    • ♦General
    • ♦HMA Mix Design
    • ♦Guidelines for Selecting HMA Mixtures
    • ♦Selecting Surface Aggregates to Comply With the Wet Weather Accident Reduction Program (WWARP)
  • ♦6. Hydraulic Cement
  • ♦7. Reinforcing Steel
  • ♦8. Hydraulic Cement Concrete
  • ►9. Geosynthetics in Pavement Structures
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Description of Materials and Applications
    • ♦Geosynthetics for Surface Layer Reinforcement
    • ♦Geosynthetics for Geotechnical Reinforcement
    • ♦Geosynthetics for Drainage Applications
    • ♦Specifications and Testing
• ►4. Pavement Evaluation
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Visual Condition Surveys
    • ♦Non-destructive Testing
    • ♦Destructive Testing
  • ►2. Visual Pavement Condition Surveys
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Flexible Pavement Visual Survey Condition Categories
    • ♦Rigid Pavement Visual Survey Condition Categories
  • ►3. Non-Destructive Evaluation of Pavement Functional Properties
    • ♦Roughness
    • ♦Skid Resistance
  • ►4. Non-Destructive Evaluation of Pavement Structural Properties
    • ♦List of Non-Destructive Tools in Order of Availability
    • ♦Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD)
    • ♦Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP)
    • ♦Air-coupled Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
    • ♦Ground-coupled Penetrating Radar (GPR)
    • ♦Seismic Evaluation Tools
    • ♦Rolling Dynamic Deflectometer (RDD)
  • ►5. Destructive Evaluation of Pavement Structural Properties
    • ♦Trenching and Coring
    • ♦Trenching Procedure
    • ♦Coring Procedure
    • ♦Shelby Tube
  • ♦6. Geotechnical Investigation for Pavement Structures
• ►5. Flexible Pavement Design
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. Types of Flexible Pavements
    • ♦Definition of Flexible Pavement
    • ♦Types of Hot Mix Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements
  • ►3. FPS-19W Design Parameters
    • ♦General Inputs
    • ♦Traffic Inputs
    • ♦Environment and Subgrade
    • ♦Material Parameters
    • ♦Modified Texas Triaxial Check
  • ►4. Pavement Detours and Pavement Widening
    • ♦Pavement Detours
    • ♦Pavement Widening
  • ►5. Perpetual Pavement Design and Mechanistic Design Guidelines
    • ♦General
    • ♦Designing a Perpetual Pavement using FPS-19W
    • ♦Checking the Proposed Design for Compliance with Limiting Strain Criteria
• ►6. Flexible Pavement Construction
  • ♦1. Introduction
  • ►2. Pavement Surface Preparation
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Prime Coat - Flexible Pavements
    • ♦Underseals
    • ♦Existing Surface Preparation for Overlays
    • ♦Other Tack Coat Aspects
  • ►3. Plant Operations
    • ♦Batch Plants
    • ♦Drum Plant
  • ►4. Mix Transport
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Truck Types
    • ♦Operational Considerations
    • ♦Summary
  • ►5. Placement
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Placement Considerations
    • ♦Asphalt Paver
    • ♦Material Transfer Vehicles (MTVs)
  • ►6. Compaction
    • ♦Introduction
    • ♦Compaction Measurement and Reporting
    • ♦Compaction Importance
    • ♦Factors Affecting Compaction
    • ♦Compaction Equipment
    • ♦Roller Variables
    • ♦Summary
  • ►7. Ride Quality
    • ♦Ride Quality Parameter (IRI)
    • ♦Equipment for Measuring Ride Quality
    • ♦Pay Schedule
    • ♦Smoothness Opportunity
    • ♦Analysis of Ride Data
  • ♦8. Base and Subgrade Preparation
• ►7. Flexible Pavement Rehabilitation
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. In-place Surface Recycling
    • ♦Hot In-place Recycling (HIPR)
    • ♦Cold In-place Recycling (Bituminous Layers Only)
  • ►3. Geosynthetics
    • ♦Geosynthetics in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Applications
    • ♦Geosynthetics in Pavement Bases (non-HMA Applications)
  • ►4. Flexible Base Overlay and Flexible Base Thickening
    • ♦Flexible Base Overlay
    • ♦Flexible Base Thickening
  • ♦5. Full Depth Reclamation/Recycling (FDR)
  • ►6. HMA Overlays
    • ♦Structural Overlays
    • ♦Non-structural Overlays
  • ►7. Surface Treatments
    • ♦Underseals
  • ♦8. Concrete Overlays
  • ►9. Reducing Rigid Pavements
    • ♦Break and Seat
    • ♦Crack and Seat
    • ♦Rubblizing
    • ♦Multi-head Breaker (MHB)
• ►8. Rigid Pavement Design
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Rigid Pavement Types
    • ♦Selection of Rigid Pavement Type
    • ♦Performance Period
  • ►2. Approved Design Method
    • ♦AASHTO Rigid Pavement Design Procedure
  • ♦3. Rigid Pavement Design Process
  • ►4. Recommended Input Design Values
    • ♦Input Values
    • ♦28-day Concrete Modulus of Rupture, Mr
    • ♦28-day Concrete Elastic Modulus
    • ♦Effective Modulus of Base/Subgrade Reaction: k-value
    • ♦Serviceability Indices
    • ♦Load Transfer Coefficient
    • ♦Drainage Coefficient
    • ♦Overall Standard Deviation
    • ♦Reliability, %
    • ♦Design Traffic 18-kip ESAL
  • ♦5. Determining Concrete Pavement Thickness
  • ♦6. Concrete Pavement Design Standards
  • ♦7. Bonded and Unbonded Concrete Overlays
  • ►8. Thin Concrete Pavement Overlay (Thin Whitetopping)
    • ♦Preliminary Guidelines for Thin Whitetopping (TWT)
• ►9. Rigid Pavement Construction
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ♦2. Concrete Mix Design
  • ►3. Concrete Plant Operation
    • ♦Central-mixed Plants
    • ♦Shrink-mixed Concrete
    • ♦Truck-mixed Concrete
  • ♦4. Delivery of Concrete
  • ►5. Steel Placement
    • ♦Reinforcing Steel
    • ♦Storing Reinforcing Steel
    • ♦Splicing Longitudinal Steel
    • ♦Splice Locations
    • ♦Holding the Reinforcing Steel in Place
  • ►6. Paving Operations
    • ♦Fixed-form Paving
    • ♦Forms
    • ♦Setting Forms
    • ♦Checking Forms
    • ♦Paving Operations
    • ♦Removing Forms
    • ♦Slip-form Paving
    • ♦Alignment and Grade
    • ♦Overview of Slip-form Paver
    • ♦Vertical Alignment Control
    • ♦Horizontal Alignment
    • ♦Paver’s Forward Speed
    • ♦Augers
    • ♦Vibrators
    • ♦Pan Float
    • ♦Inserting One-piece Tie Bars into the Edge
    • ♦Finishing Operations
  • ►7. Joints
    • ♦Terminal Anchors
• ►10. Rigid Pavement Rehabilitation
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ►2. Full-Depth Repair
    • ♦Pavement Distress Types that Require Full Depth Repair (FDR)
    • ♦Full Depth Repair (FDR) Procedures
  • ►3. Partial Depth Repair
    • ♦Pavement Distresses that Require Partial Depth Repair (PDR)
    • ♦Partial Depth Repair (PDR) Procedures
  • ►4. Bonded Concrete Overlay
    • ♦Bonded Concrete Overlay (BCO) Procedures
  • ►5. Unbonded Concrete Overlay
    • ♦UBCO Procedures
  • ►6. Stitching
    • ♦Pavement Distresses that Require Stitching
    • ♦Types of Stitching
  • ►7. Dowel Bar Retrofit
    • ♦DBR Procedures
  • ►8. Joint Repair
    • ♦Pavement Distresses that Require Joint Repairs
    • ♦Load Transfer Devices
  • ►9. Diamond Grinding
    • ♦Pavement Distresses that Require Diamond Grinding (DG)
    • ♦Other Issues with DG
  • ♦10. Thin ACP Overlays
  • ♦11. Retro-fitting Concrete Shoulders
• ►11. Forensics
  • ♦1. Overview
  • ♦2. Objectives
  • ♦3. Pavement Forensics Team’s Composition and Specialization
  • ♦4. Requesting Pavement Forensic Team Assistance
  • ♦5. Pavement Forensics Team Investigation Procedures
  • ♦6. Obtaining Copies of Pavement Forensics Studies
• ►12. Load Zoning and Super Heavy Load Analysis
  • ►1. Overview for Load Zoning
    • ♦Background
    • ♦Minute Orders
    • ♦What is in This Chapter?
  • ►2. Changing Load Zones on Roads
    • ♦Adding
    • ♦Removing
    • ♦Changing
  • ►3. Emergency Load Zones on Roads
    • ♦Setting Emergency Load Zones on Roads
  • ►4. Changing Load Zones on County Roads and Bridges
    • ♦Law Ruling
    • ♦Coordination between County and District
    • ♦Required Information and Supporting Documentation
  • ♦5. Super Heavy Load Analysis Background
  • ♦6. Super Heavy Load Evaluation Process
  • ♦7. Damage from Super Heavy Load Moves
  • ♦8. Damage Claim Procedure
• ►13. Pavements and Materials Research
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Background
    • ♦Research & Technology Implementation Office
    • ♦Technical Assistance Panel (TAP)
    • ♦How to Submit Research Ideas
    • ♦Active and Past Pavements and Materials Research Projects
    • ♦Transportation Research Board
    • ♦National Cooperative Highway Research Program
    • ♦Pooled Fund Program
    • ♦Other FHWA Programs
• ►14. Trade Organizations
  • ♦1. Pavement Trade Organizations
• ►15. Other Related References and Links
  • ♦1. Manuals and State DOT Links

Manual Notice: 2006-1

From: Thomas R. Bohuslav, P.E., Director, Construction Division

Manual: Pavement Design Guide

Effective Date: October 01, 2006

Purpose

This manual notice is intended to transmit changes to the content of the Pavement Design Guide.

Changes

This manual update includes significant changes throughout the manual. The changes include the significant growth in manual content from six chapters to fifteen chapters.

Supercedes

The revised manual supersedes prior versions of the manual.

Contact

Contact the Construction Division, Materials & Pavements Section (CST/M&P) at 512/506-5807 for further information regarding the methods in this manual.

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Past manual notices are available in a pdf archive.