2011 Annual Meeting
86th AAPT Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions
The 2011 Annual Meeting was held at the Marriott Waterside Hotel in Tampa, Florida on March 27-30, 2011. There were 217 attendees from 17 countries around the world, representing suppliers, consultants, contractors, universities, government agencies and other researchers. Their common interest is research into materials and methods on how to build better roads.
The minutes for the AAPT Annual Meeting will be posted soon.
Highlights
A Leading Edge Workshop was held on Sunday, March 27. The following subjects were discussed:
“Intelligent Compaction”
Opening/Overview
Lee Gallivan
HMA IC: Systems, Field Demos
George Chang
Top 10 FAQ
Lee Gallivan
“Sustainable Technologies”
Overview of Life Cycle Assessment for Pavements, and Update on Recent Research Results
John Harvey
A Sustainable Modifier for Asphalt Binder
Elham Fini, Eric Kalberer; Zhanping You
Warm Asphalt Mix Characterization over Short-Term Curing
Imad Al-Qadi
The Technical Session included 18 papers, which were grouped into the following 5 sessions:
“Cracking Performance of Asphalt Mixtures”
"Evolving Tests for Asphalt Mixture Performance Prediction and Evaluation"
“Performance Evaluation”
“RAP, RAS and WMA”
“Asphalt Pavement Overlay Design”
There was also an International Forum which was co-sponsored by AAPT and ISAP. The following topics were covered:
Discussion of ASIAN Asphalt Issues
Designing Asphalt Pavements for Safe Wet-Weather Driving in Wet-Tropical Climate -- the Southeast Asian Experience
T.F. Fwa, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of SingaporeDrainage Asphalt Pavement in Japan
Kazuyuki Kubo, Public Works Research Institute, JapanWarm Mix Asphalt Practices in Korea
Hyun-Jong Lee, Sejong University, Republic of KoreaLink Performance, Structure and Material Together: Research and Practice for Heavy Duty Asphalt Pavements
Lijun Sun, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Discussion of RILEM/ISAP Activities
ISAP Update – John D’Angelo
RILEM SIB – Manfred Partl
RILEM CAP – Scarpas/Molenaar
NEW RILEM COMMITTEE
"Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Asphalt and Composite Pavement" – Bill Buttlar
Finally, there was a Symposium Session, titled “Use of Performance Testing to Implement Engineering Technologies” which included the following presentations:
Performance Testing: A Path to Implementation, Randy West, NCAT
Two Years Monitoring of Performance of WMA Jobs, Francois Chaignon and Jean-Paul Fort, Colas NA
Performance Evaluation of Terminal Blend Tire Rubber Asphalt Mixtures, Edgard Hitti, Paramount Petroleum Corporation
French High Modulus (EME) Mixtures Containing Post Consumer Shingles: Effect on MEPDG Structural Design, Jason Wielinski and Gerald Huber, Heritage Research
Use of Performance-Related Specifications for New Jersey's Specialty Mixes, Tom Bennert, Rutgers
Each of the sessions included presentations by experts in the field followed by open discussions. The papers and discussions will be published in Volume 80 of the AAPT Journal. There were 46 papers submitted for the March 2011 AAPT Meeting. The Board of Directors developed the technical sessions from these papers.
- AAPT's 2012 Annual Meeting
The next Annual Meeting will be held in Austin, Texas at the OMNI Downtown on April 1-4, 2012. - AAPT has received generous gifts for the AAPT Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship for 2009 was awarded to Mary M. Robbins, Auburn University. Applications for the 2010 scholarship should be sent to the AAPT office not later than May 1, 20010. The scholarship will be awarded July 15, 2010.
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