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LTRC2009-2010 Annual Report

Merging Government,Industry, and Academia


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ance, raining, coninuing educaion,

echnology ranser, and problem-solv-

ing services o DOD and he ranspor-

aion communiy a large. Te cener

is largely suppored hrough undingauhorized by DOD and he Federal

Highway Adminisraion (FHWA).

LC merges he resources o he sae

and local governmen, universiies, and

privae indusry o ideniy, develop,

and implemen new echnology o im-

prove he saes ransporaion sysem.

By harnessing hese valuable resources,

LC is empowered o fnd innovaivesoluions o Louisianas ransporaion

problems.

o enhance he cener as he ocus or

ransporaion-relaed research, echnol

ogy ranser, and educaion in Louisi-

ana, he LC oundaion, a non-prof

organizaion, has been esablished. Te

oundaion provides an excellen par-

nership opporuniy or DOD, saeuniversiies, and he privae secor.

In hese and oher ways, LC is paving

he way or more e cien and benefcial

research and raining, hanks o a com-

binaion o modern echniques, locally

available resources, and a wide pool o

suppor.

For addiional inormaion, conac

LRC

4101 Gourrier Avenue

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808

www.ltrc.lsu.edu

Te Louisiana ransporaion esearch

Cener (LC) is a research, echnology

ranser, and raining cener adminisered

joinly by he Louisiana Deparmen

o ransporaion and Developmen(DOD) and Louisiana Sae Univer-

siy (LSU). LC provides a seting in

which he hresholds o echnology can

be explored and applied in pracical ways.

By merging he resources o DOD and

LSU, a versaile core o aciliies and

experise addresses he rapidly evolving

challenges in he ransporaion feld.

In addiion o is a liaion wih LSU,LC paricipaes ully wih oher

universiies in Louisiana ha house

engineering programs (Louisiana ech

Universiy, McNeese Sae Universiy,

Souhern Universiy, ulane Universiy

Universiy o Louisiana a Laayete, and

Universiy o New Orleans). By combin-

ing heir resources wih hose o DOD,

he cener eliminaes duplicaion o eor

and provides a richer base o suppor. Tecener also provides an avenue or muli-

disciplinary suppor rom universiies o

mee he pracical and academic needs o

he ransporaion indusry in such areas

as engineering, law, business and man-

agemen, basic sciences, planning, and

environmenal sudies.

Since is creaion by he Louisiana legis-

laure in 1986, LC has gained naional

recogniion hrough is eors o improve

ransporaion sysems in Louisiana. Te

cener conducs shor-erm and long-erm

research and provides echnical assis-

Sherri H. LeBas, P.E.

Secretary

Michael V. Martin, Ph.D.Chancellor


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ontent

Tis publicaion is a repor o he ransporaion

research, echnology ranser, educaion, and raining

aciviies o he Louisiana ransporaion esearch

Cener or July 1, 2009June 30, 2010. Te cener is

sponsored joinly by he Louisiana Deparmen o

ransporaion and Developmen and Louisiana Sae

Universiy.

Directors Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Completed Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Active Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Featured Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Education & Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

TTEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Tech Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Local Technical Assistance Program . . . . . . . 19

LTRC Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Professional Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

StaffListing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24


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Directors Message

o: Sherri H. LeBas, P.E., Secreary, DOD

Michael V. Marin, Ph.D., Chancellor, LSU

ichard Savoie, P.E., Chie Engineer, DODichard Koubek, Ph.D., Dean, College o Engineering, LSU

Change, sreamlining, and e ciency seem o be he acionable

words his year. Leadership changes a DOD and LSU and

wihin he LC policy commitee were many his year. We

welcome ichard Savoie, DOD chie engineer, as our new

Policy Commitee chair. He replaces Bill emple upon his

reiremen. Bill was a long ime employee and laer riend o

research and, on a personal noe, was my frs supervisor a

DOD many years ago as he assisan pavemen research en-gineer. Likewise, Seve Cumbaa has reired. Sherri Lebas was

named as Secreary o DOD. Sherri presaged her engineering

career as a suden worker a LC working in he geoech

lab and upon graduaion began her DOD career a LC

as an engineer inern. We look orward o serving her needs

and bringing coninued innovaion o DOD. Dean ichard

Koubek also began his enure a LSU a he beginning o his

year. Finally, we welcome Dr. Bob Bruce and Dr. Norma Jean

Matei as new Policy Commitee members rom heir respec-

ive universiies, ulane and he Universiy o New Orleans.

I would like o bring your atenion o several sreamlining and

e ciency eors ha have come o ruiion his year. Firs,

he LC esearch Projec Managemen Sysem is up and

running. Tis web based managemen sysem auomaes every

process used in he adminisraion o he research program,

including modules or our research projec soliciaion process,

work program developmen, biannual reporing, and imple-

menaion reporing along wih access o projec fles and

oher managemen repors. Te fnancial side will be included

when DOD iniiaes he saes Enerprise esource Program.

Addiional modules will be added as necessary. Hundreds o

man-hours are saved hrough his managemen sysem.

Meanwhile, he ransporaion raining and Educaion Cen-

er (EC) is reaching is poenial as a echnology-enhanced

cener o learning or our work orce developmen. Our Media

Sie soware capures almos every course or raining ses-

sion in a digial orma ha is posed o he LC web sie.

Sudens can access hese courses o review porions or all o

course oerings, and new sudens can access hese courses as

a disance learning experience. Almos 1,100 his were made

on his sie his year. In addiion, we have ripled he numbero hours o raining hrough video conerencing. Mos impor-

an is some research on immersive virual learning experience

as a new mehod o course delivery. You will fnd a eaure

aricle on page 17 describing his IVLE mehodology.

Inside his repor you will fnd eaured aricles on he research

program, educaion and raining and echnology ranser

aciviies. Compleed and acive research projecs, raining

accomplishmens, echnology ranser aciviies, suppor o

higher educaion, and publicaions and presenaions are alsoincluded.

LC hosed he Souheas ransporaion Consorium

(SC) meeing his year. Te SC is a pooled und eor

o 10 souheasern saes o collaborae on research eors

hrough he leveraging o unds and he reducion o research

duplicaion. Te eors o he SC are described in anoher

eaured aricle on page 9.

own hall meeings were held a six o our seven Policy Com-

mitee universiies his year in order o inroduce new proes-

sors o LC and our suppor or higher educaion. In par-

icular, we ouline how hey can paricipae in our programs.

LC coninued is success in atracing exernal research

unding wih hree addiional FHWA Innovaive Bridge e-

search and Deploymen sudies, anoher NCHP sudy and a

projec or USACE.

Finally, I would bring your atenion o he las page o his

repor where we are very proud o repor he selecion o ia

inka McFarland as a Charles E. Dunbar, Jr. Award Honoree

or her service o he ciizens o Louisiana.

especully submited,

Harold Skip Paul, P.E., Direcor


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Facilities

Locaed on he LSU campus in Baon ouge, LC provides

researchers and sudens access o excellen laboraories and

sae-o-he-ar research equipmen. Te ull resources o LSU

as a Carnegie Designaed Docoral/esearch Exensive Insiu-

ion are also available. Te unique posiion o LC provides

access o virually all o LSU and DODs resources o pursue

is mission.

LC houses more han 90 employees and up o 30 sudensin wo adjacen aciliies. Te LC building is a 25,300-square

oo aciliy ha includes fve research laboraories, a conerence

room, and o ces. Te laboraories are used o conduc ad-

vanced research ino asphal, concree, soils, and pavemens. Te

14,000 square oo ransportation raining and Education

Center (TEC) houses a lecure hall, a compuer-based raining

classroom, and wo general classrooms ha are all equipped

wih advanced educaion and raining equipmen and disance

learning/video-conerencing capabiliies. A comprehensive

ransporaion library and o ces are also included.

LC has idenifed research areas o sraegic imporance and

has developed expanded capabiliies or concenraion in several

areas: he Engineering Maerials Characerizaion and esearch

Faciliy (EMCF), a laboraory aciliy specializing in unda-

menal maerials characerizaion; he Geoechnical Engineering

esearch Laboraory (GEL), a laboraory ocusing on rans-

poraion earh-works, srucural oundaions, and geosynhe-

ics; and Pavemen on he Move (POM), a muli-use mobile

laboraory or collecing daa rom feld consrucion projecs as

well as research and raining.

Alhough remoe rom he cener, he Louisiana Pavement

Research Facilityis an imporan aciliy ha sreamlines pave-

men loading research by compressing years o road wear ino

monhs o esing. Te six-acre aciliy is locaed on he wes side

o he Mississippi iver and incorporaes an Acceleraed Load-

ing Faciliy (ALFM

).

Te addiion o EC grealy enhances LCs mission by

aciliaing he delivery o raining, proessional developmen

opporuniies, and echnology ranser o engineers, echnicians,

undergraduae and graduae sudens, and proessionals rom

boh he public and privae domains.

LC is a budge eniy o he Louisiana Deparmen o

ransporaion and Developmen. Funding is a combinaion o

Sae, Sae Planning and esearch (Par II, Federal), InnovaiveBridge esearch and Deploymen (100 percen ederal), Surace

ransporaion Program (SP-ederal), and exernal conracs

and grans, such as he Naional Cooperaive Highway esearch

Program, he U.S. Army Corps o Engineers, and he Naional

Science Foundaion.

(l o r): TEC, LRC, ALF


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Completed Research

LTRCProject

AgencyPrincipalInvestigator

Project Title

09-1SS LSU Dr. DouglasCarlson

Monioring Salwaer in Spara Aquier in Norh Cenral Louisiana

08-2P LSU Dr. Mosaa ElseifAnalysis o Seasonal Srain Measuremens and Asphal Maerials under

Acceleraed Load

08-1SS LSUDr. Douglas

CarlsonExen o Disease isk rom Lignie Wihin Aquiers o Norhwesern LA

07-3G LSU Dr. oy DokkaDevelopmen o Operaional eal-ime Kinemaic Global Posiioning

Service or Souheasern Louisiana

07-2G LCDr. Murad Abu-

FarsakhCalibraion o esisance Facors needed in he LFD Design o Driven Pile

06-6G LSU Dr. Khalid Alshibli Updae o Correlaions Beween Cone Peneraion and Boring Log Daa

04-2S ulane Dr. ober N. Bruce Srucural Monioring o igoles Pass Bridge

03-1G LC Gavin GaureauDevelopmen o Geoechnical Inormaion Daabase- Compuer Program

o Expedie Soil Subgrade Survey Daa o Designers

01-3ENV LU Dr. Dixie Gri nranspor, reaabiliy, and oxiciy o Highway Sorm Waer Discharged

o eceiving Waers Across Louisiana

09-1IE ULL Dr. William ChirdonEec o Termal Oscillaion Frequency on he Eecive Termal Properie

o Concree and Asphal

09-3IE LSU Dr. Marwa HassanUse o ianium Dioxide o Improve Perormance and Air Puriying

Capabiliies o Concree Pavemens

09-4IE LUNazimuddin M.

Wasiuddin

Teoreical and Experimenal Deerminiaion o Adhesion Beween

Asphal Binders and Aggregaes in Dry and We Condiions

09-2IE LSU Dr. S.A. Hsu Applicaion o Saellie Imagery or Surace ain ae Esimaion

09-2G LSU Dr. oy Dokka Qualiy Conrol eview or Managemen Sysem oadway Elevaions

07-3SS LSU Dr. Sheri Ishak Esablishing and Inelligen ransporaion Sysem (IS) a LC

05-5G LCDr. Murad

Abu-Farsakh

Evaluaing he Benefs o Geogrid einorced Bases in Flexible Pavemen

(Inerim epor)

05-3S LSU Dr. Guoqiang LiDevelopmen and Advanced Grid Siened (AGS) FP ube-Encased

Concree Columns

03-1SS LSU Dr. Cheser

WilmoEvaluaion o Freeway Conraow Evacuaion Iniiaion and erminaion

Poin Confguraions

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Completed Research (Pending Publication)

LTRC

ProjectAgency

Principal

InvestigatorProject Title

03-2G LC Dr. Zhong Wu Acceleraed Loading Evaluaion o a Subbase Layer on Pavemen Perormance

04-1G LUDr. Xingran

(Jay) WangEsimaing Seup o Piles Driven ino Louisiana Clayey Soils

08-6G LSUDr. Michele

BarbaoPerormance Evaluaion o Buried Pipe Insallaion

95-3G LCMr. Kevin

GaspardIn-Place Cemen Sabilized Base econsrucion echniques

00-2P LCMr. Mark

Marinez

Developmen o Warrany equiremens in Sae Conracs or

Highway Consrucion

07-1P LC Dr. Zhong WuFinie Elemen Simulaion o Srucural Perormance on Flexible Pavemens

wih Sabilized Base/reaed Subbase Maerials under Acceleraed Loading

03-3B LCDr. Louay

MohammadOpimizaion o Asphal Mixure Design or he Louisiana ALF es Secions

04-3B LSUMr. William

H. Daly

A Comparaive Analysis o Modifed Binders: Original Asphals and Maerials

Exraced rom Exising Pavemens

04-7B LCDr. Ioan

NegulescuTe Use o DMA o Characerize he Aging o Asphal Binders

09-1B LC

Dr. Louay

Mohammad

Characerizaion o HMA Mixures Conaining

High ecycled Asphal Pavemen Conen wih Crumb ubber Addiives

05-1S LSU Dr. Guoqiang Li Daa Validaion o FP Maerials Used in Srenghening Bridge Beams in Louisiana

02-3SS LSU Dr. Xiaoduan SunDeveloping a Comprehensive Highway Acciden Daa Analysis Sysem

wih GIS (III)

05-1SS LSU Dr. Sheri Ishak Evaluaion O Te ra c Saey Benefs O A Lower Speed Limi And esricion

o rucks o Use O igh Lane Only On I-10 Over Te Achaalaya Basin

06-1SS LSUDr. Cheser

WilmoSaewide ra c Saey Sudy - Phase II

06-3SS ULLDr. amesh

Kolluru Gul Coas Opporuniy Zone (GOZone) edevelopmen Using 3D Modeling

07-2SS LSUDr. Brian

WolshonTe Design o Lane Merges a ural Freeway Consrucion Work Zones


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Active Research

LTRC

Project

AgencyPrincipal

Investigator

Project Title Sar Dae End Dae

09-1G WPI Dr. Minjiang aoUpdae LADOD Policy on Pile Driving

Vibraion Managemen6/1/2009 5/31/2011

08-1P LSU Dr. Mosaa ElseifCos Eecive Prevenion o eecive Cracking

o Composie Pavemen6/15/2008 2/14/2011

09-2P LC Dr. Mosaa ElseifImplemenaion o he olling Wheel Deecomeer

(WD) in PMS and Pavemen Preservaion7/1/2009 6/30/2011

08-1S LSU Dr. Ayman OkeilEvaluaion o Coninuiy Deails or Precas

Presressed Girders12/1/2007 8/31/2010

08-3S LSU Dr. GoupingZhang

Evaluaion o Design Mehods o DeermineScour Dephs or Bridge Srucures

4/1/2009 4/1/2011

09-5S LC Dr. Guoqiang LiSuppor Sudy or A Shape Memory Polymer

Based Sel-healing Sealan or Expansion Join5/1/2009 11/1/2010

07-4SS SUDr. Sharon

Parsons

LADOD Cusomer Service Process and

Oucome Evaluaion5/1/2007 12/31/2010

08-3SS ULL Dr. Xiaoduan Sun Developing Louisiana Crash educion Facors 11/1/2009 10/31/2011

09-6C LSUMr. Hak-Shul

Shin

Suppor Sudy on he Characerizaion o

ernary Mixes wih Various SCMs7/1/2009 12/31/2010

10-1SS LCDr. Glynn Cavin,

MaryLeah Coco

Evaluaion o Knowledge ranser in an ImmersiveVirual Learning Environmen or he ransporaion

Communiy

1/1/2010 12/31/2010

05-1G LCDr. Murad

Abu-Farsakh

Field Demonsraion o New Bridge Approach

Slab Designs and Perormance8/1/2008 8/1/2011

08-3G LCDr. Murad

Abu-Farsakh

Suppor Sudy o Srucure Healh Monioring o

he I-10 win Span Bridge Over Lake Poncharrain11/1/2007 7/31/2012

07-6P LC Dr. Zhong Wu

Evaluaion o Curren DOD Flexible Pavemen

Srucures Using PMS Daa and New M-E Pavemen

Design Guide

7/1/2009 6/30/2011

09-7P LC Dr. Zhong WuConsrucion and Acceleraed Pavemen esing

o I Pavemen es Secions10/1/2009 10/1/2011

04-6B LCDr. Louay

Mohammad

Characerizaion o Louisiana Asphal Mixures

Using Simple Perormance ess and MEPDG1/1/2008 12/31/2010

07-1B LC Mr. Bill KingEvaluaion o Warm Mix Asphal echnology in

Flexible Pavemens3/15/2009 3/15/2011

09-2B LC Dr. Zhong WuDevelopmen o New Surace Fricion Guidelines

or LADOD7/1/2009 6/30/2011


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LTRC

Project

AgencyPrincipal

Investigator


09-2S LCMr. Walid

Alaywan

Perormance and Analysis o Concree Bridge ailing

Using Convenional and Composie einorcemen

Maerials

4/1/2009 3/31/2011

06-2SS LCDr. Cheser

Wilmo

Developmen o a ime-Dependen Hurricane Evac-

uaion Model or he New Orleans Area - Phase 27/1/2008 6/30/2012

09-2C LCDr. yson

upnow

Evaluaion o Cemen and Fly Ash reaed RP

and Marginal Aggregaes or Base Consrucion3/1/2009 3/1/2011

09-4C LCDr. yson

upnowEvaluaion o ernary Cemeniious Combinaions 3/1/2009 6/30/2011

09-5C LCMr. Parick

Icenogle

Evaluaion o Non-Desrucive echnologies or

Consrucion Qualiy Conrol o HMA and PCC

Pavemens in Louisiana

7/1/2009 6/30/2011

10-1C LCDr. yson

upnow

Evaluaion o he Surace esisiviy Measuremens

as an Alernaive o he apid Chloride Permeabiliy

es or Qualiy Assurance and Accepance

2/1/2010 5/1/2011

05-5S LSU Dr. Seve C.S. Cai Bridge Deck eplacemen using FP Maerials 11/15/2005 11/14/2010

07-1S LCDr. Murad

Abu-Farsakh

Srucure Healh Monioring o he I-10 win Span

Bridge Over Lake Poncharrain11/1/2007 7/31/2012

07-3S LSU Dr. Seve C.S. Caiepairing/Srenghening o Bridges wih Pos-

ensioned FP Srands and Perormance Evaluaion10/1/2007 3/31/2011

07-4S LSUDr. George Z.

Voyiadjis

Inegral Abumen Bridge or Louisianas So

and Si Soils10/1/2007 8/31/2011

08-2S LSU Dr. Seve C.S. Cai Monioring Bridge Scour Using Fiber Opic Sensors 1/1/2009 7/1/2011

08-2SS LC Mr. Dan Srecker

LOOP Environmenal Monioring: 2008-2010

Beach Elevaion, Beach Vegeaion, and Land Loss

and Habia Change Surveys

1/1/2008 12/31/2010

10-1G LU Mr. WesleyPalmer

Measuring Levee Elevaion Heighs inNorh Louisiana

12/1/2009 11/30/2010

07-7P ULL Dr. Xiaoduan SunSaey Improvemen rom Edge Lines o ural wo-

Lane Highway9/1/2007 8/31/2011

06-4B LCDr. Louay

MohammadOpimizaion o ack Coa or HMA Placemen 7/1/2005 12/31/2010

10-1B LCDr. Louay

Mohammad

Field versus Laboraory Volumerics and Mechanical

Properies8/1/2009 2/29/2012

LSU: Louisiana Sae Universiy; LU: Louisiana ech Universiy; ULL: Universiy o Louisiana a Laayete; SU: Souhern Universiy

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Active Research


Ground Tire Rubber: Implementing Sustainability

In 1991, he

Inermodal Sur-

ace ranspora-

ion E ciency

Ac (ISEA)

specifed ha all

asphal pavemen

projecs undedby ederal agen-

cies mus use a

cerain percenage o scrap ires in consrucion projecs. By

1994, he mandae was suspended rom he ISEA legislaion,

ye i sill encouraged he research and applicaion o crumb

rubber modifed (CM) asphal in ho mix asphal (HMA)

pavemens.

Louisiana had begun feld evaluaions o using ground ire rub-

ber (G) in our HMA mixures by 1994. LC publishedFinal epor 393 aer a seven-year evaluaion o fve feld proj-

ecs ha included eigh es secions and six G producs. Te

ollowing fndings are repored:

Te G we process is an excellen mehod or reducing

crack propagaion.

esearchers recommended ha asphal cemen binder

specifcaions be developed and implemened o allow he

use o he G in a we process in HMA.

Te use o G modifed HMA mixures should increase

he lie-cycle o HMA pavemens.

In 1998, LC began evaluaing he use o G modifed HMA

mixures under acceleraed pavemen esing. Findings rom his

projec included:

Te wearing course mixure using G showed similar

laboraory properies when compared o he convenionalpolymer modifed mixure.

Similar ruting resuls also occurred in his comparison.

Te base course mixure using G showed improved

laboraory properies when compared o convenional base

course mixures.

Lower ruting was also repored in he base course G

mixures.

Sorage sabiliy, required mix emperaures a he refnery er-

minal, and he abiliy or he conracor o compac he rubbermodifed mixure a normal compacion emperaures were jus

a ew o he challenges he Deparmen needed o overcome. In

April 2008, DOD adoped he PG82-22rm binder specifca-

ion, which uses wase G o modiy he nea binder. Te

specifcaion allows he use o he PG82-22rm binder in lieu o

any binders specifed. A shorage o syrene-buadiene-syrene

(SBS) polymers laer in 2008 caused conracors o look a

alernaives o modiy he asphal binder, which included he use

o G.

LTRCProject

AgencyPrincipalInvestigator


10-5B LC Dr. LouayMohammad

Laboraory Evaluaion o he Perormance oSulur-Enhanced Asphal reaed Base Mixures

7/1/2009 6/30/2010

09-4S LSU Dr. Guoqiang LiA Shape Memory Polymer based Sel-healing Sealan

or Expansion Join5/1/2009 11/1/2010

09-2SS LCDr. Cheser

Wilmo

Enhancing Calibraed Peer eview or Improved

Engineering Communicaion Educaion9/1/2008 9/1/2011

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Featured Research

In Ocober 2010, LC hosed he inaugural meeing o heSouheasern ransporaion Consorium (SC). Te SC

was esablished o oser beter growh in knowledge, skills, and

abiliies amongs ransporaion proessionals and academic

parners.

Te collaboraive research program consorium was inii-

aed hrough he FHWA ransporaion Pooled Fund (PF)

Program wih Louisiana as he lead sae. Te purpose behind

SC is o pool fnancial, proessional, and academic resources o

coordinae research and develop improved mehods o address-ing common problems in he ransporaion sysems in par-

icipaing saes. en o he 13 SASHO saes have joined he

SC (Norh Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, ennessee, Georgia,

Kenucky, Louisiana, Virginia, Mississippi, and Wes Virginia.)

LC Associae Direcor o esearch Mark Morvan, P.E.,

began he meeing by opening he able or members o ideniy

ways in which hey envision spending allocaed unds and o

discuss wha hey would like o see accomplished hrough he

consorium. Mwrinmay Bismas rom Norh Carolina explained,I see his as being an incubaor or research ha may be o iner-

es o many o he saes, so i we fnd a projec ha is suiable

or all saes i should defniely be done by his organizaion.Michael Peraer rom Virginia added, I hope o go back wih

a beter undersanding o where he pockes o experise are in

individual saes and universiies.

Because he consorium is inended o encourage coordinaion

among member saes and provide resources and managemen

o collaboraive sudies, members had he opporuniy o pres-

en heir research programs. Tese presenaions included acive

and uure research, a liaions wih sae universiies, and pos-

sible uure collaboraions wih oher saes. By learning moreabou each saes program, high-prioriy ransporaion research

opics o common ineres o he souheasern and adjoining

saes can be addressed easier han beore, reducing duplicaion

o research beween member saes.

o encourage his and promoe beter communicaion o ongo-

ing research aciviies in sae research programs, he frs projec

iniiaed by he consorium will be a synhesis o member saes

recenly compleed and ongoing projecs. By launching his

sudy, he consorium objecives o developing synergy andproviding a more e cien use o resources are now underway.

Southeastern Transportation Consortium Convenes at LTRC

Compared o oher modifers, G uses less energy and

produces lower emissions. Tis is due o lower blend-

ing emperaures and reduced mixing ime. In addiion,

approximaely 12% o he base asphal is displaced when

modiying he mixure wih G, creaing a reducion in

asphal rom he refnery as well as less refning o crude oil.Te combined resul is a subsanial reducion in creaed

carbon emissions. Te use o G is a promising echnol-

ogy or Louisiana wih signifcan poenial o enhance

pavemen perormance and saisy curren marke needs

wih respec o supporing he recycling o scrap ires.

9

By he end o 2010, Louisiana will haverecycled over 300,000 scrap ires in con-srucion projecs, wih more planned on

uure projecs.


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Featured Research

Development and Performance Assessment of an FRPStrengthened Balsa-Wood Bridge Deck

ypically, highway bridge decks in he US are made o seel-

reinorced concree, bu repair and mainenance coss o hese

bridges incurred a he ederal and sae levels can be over-

whelming. As a resul, ransporaion agencies have searched or

new cos-eecive and reliable consrucion maerials. One very

promising alernaive is he Fiber einorced Polymer (FP)

bridge deck sysem, as FP composies have ound increasing

applicaions in bridge design and consrucion.

In his projec, researchers aimed o develop an innovaive FP-

wrapped balsa wood bridge deck sysem suiable or replacing

a damaged bridge seel grid deck, assess he opions or long-

erm monioring, and develop long-erm monioring guidelines.

Te ulimae objecive is o ake advanage o he promising

characerisics o FP maerials o develop a more durable, less

mainenance-inensive bridge sysem o save limied unds or

more urgen needs in he ransporaion inrasrucure sysem.

Te bridge seleced or his sudy, which is on roue LA 70 in

Assumpion Parish, eaures a concree deck and bens, seel

I-beam, and a removable span. Buil in 1988, he bridge has

a design load o HS20-44 and an average daily ra c (AD)

o approximaely 6000. Te supersrucure heigh, he span

lengh, and he eaure o movabiliy make his seel span a good

candidae o be replaced wih a FP slab sysem. Te span o be

replaced has eigh 25 . x 6 . deck panels. Te FP-wrapped

balsa wood deck panels ha are bonded on he I-girders have he

same dimensions as he seel grid deck panels. In his projec,

he primary issues o ineres or he bridges long-erm peror-

mance monioring are: (1) he inegriy o he FP-wrapped

Balsa wood bridge deck sysem; (2) srains in he ransverse di-

recion o he deck and he longiudinal direcion o he individ-

ual girders and (3) bridge deckgirder inerace bond inegriy.

Te insrumenaion plan was designed o measure he live

load response behavior o he supersrucure. Te cenral our

composie panels and supporing girders were insrumened

wih sensors. Boh inernally and exernally atached fberopic FBG and OD sensors were used in his projec. Tese

sensors enable boh shor-erm and long-erm monioring o

srains, slips, and emperaure in boh deck and girder members.

Sixeen radiional srain ransducers, six acceleromeers, and

eigh Acousic Emission (AE) sensors were also mouned during

he live load esing conduced immediaely aer consrucion,

working as a reerence or cross checking he fber opic sensor

(FOS) insrumenaion sysem.

Te new bridge deck consiss o pre-abricaed FP-wrapped

balsa wood unis. Balsa wood beams were wrapped wih GFP

shees. Te deck was adhesively bonded o he seel girder

using cusomized epoxy. Live load esing was perormed on

he bridge, and colleced daa are currenly being analyzed or

publicaion in a fnal repor.

Te next application for this deck may be as a

replacement for existing moveable bridge decks.

Gil Gaureau, DOD Srucures and Facili-ies Mainenance Engineer


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Featured Research

Mechanistic Flexible Pavement Overlay Design Program

DOD currenly ollows he 1993 AASHO pavemen designguides componen analysis mehod in is exible pavemen

overlay hickness design. Such an overlay design mehod,

however, does no require perorming any feld or laboraory

ess o assess exising pavemen srucural condiions. Insead,

pavemen engineers have o use a pre-assigned, parish-based

subgrade resilien modulus value and a se o srucural layer

coe ciens in an overlay hickness design. Obviously, such a

procedure could poenially lead o an over- or under-designed

overlay hickness since none o he design parameers represen

acual feld condiions.

Te objecive o his projec was o develop an overlay design

mehod/procedure ha is used or a srucural overlay hickness

design o exible pavemen in Louisiana based upon (1) in-siu

pavemen condiions and (2) non-desrucive es (ND)

mehods, specifcally he alling weigh deecomeer (FWD)

and/or Dynaec.

Fieen exible pavemen overlay rehabiliaion projecs were

seleced or his sudy. Field esing consised o conducing

ND deecion ess (FWD and Dynaec) along boh ra c

direcions on each seleced projec. Among hem, our projecs

were seleced or he Phase I sudy and he res were used in

Phase II. For Phase I projecs only, in-siu layer hicknesses o

exising pavemens were measured hrough auguring, and he

mid-deph emperaures o asphal concree layers were con-

inuously moniored during ND esing. Te overlay hickness

design analysis was perormed based on six seleced ND-based

overlay design procedures as well as he Mechanisic-Empirical

Pavemen Design Guide (MEPDG) soware and he curren

DOD componen analysis mehod. Consrucion cos andlie-cycle cos analyses were also included in his sudy.

A FWD deecion-based overlay hickness design procedure

was developed in his sudy or srucurally rehabiliaing ex-

ible pavemens in Louisiana. Based on he resuls o his sudy,

he ollowing specifc observaions and conclusions may be

drawn:

Te 1993 AASHO ND procedure generally over-esima-ed he eecive srucural number or he exising exible

pavemens in Louisiana, which would resul in an under-

designed overlay hickness.

Wihou urher modifcaion or calibraion, none o he

six-seleced ND procedures or soware could be direcly

applied in an overlay hickness design in Louisiana since

none represen a Louisiana pavemen condiion.

Te Louisiana Pavemen Evaluaion Char, originally de-

veloped by Kinchen and emple, has been proved no only

applicable o he Louisiana exible pavemen condiions, bu

is also based on he elasic muli-layered pavemen heory.

Tereore, i can be urher used in he evaluaion o exising

pavemen srenghs o Louisiana exible pavemens.

A srong correlaion beween FWD and Dynaec deer-

mined srucural numbers were obained. Such a correlaion

is deemed useul since i builds a link beween he layered

elasic heory applied in a exible pavemen srucure and

Louisiana in-siu pavemen condiions.

Te cos-benef analysis indicaed ha, in lieu o he curren

LADOD componen analysis overlay design mehod, a

signifcan amoun o cos savings ($74,419 per mile) would

resul in applying he proposed FWD-based overlay design

mehod developed rom his sudy.

Te developed FWD-based overlay design procedure is recom-

mended o be used or Louisiana exible pavemens srucural

overlay hickness design unil such ime as LADOD can imple

men he new MEPDG mehod. For low-volume roads where a

higher probabiliy o uncional insead o srucural overlay is

required, his proposed overlay design process would be o litle

use excep o validae ha a srucural overlay is no required.


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Education & Training

Because raining is a neces-

sary componen o careeradvancemen, DOD suppors

and promoes an environmen

o coninual learning. Tis

amosphere allows employees

o maximize heir poenial and

provide qualifed personnel

crucial o he eecive manage-

men o he ransporaion sys-

em. Trough specialized and

inensive job-specifc rainingand educaion programs, LC

reaches ou o he individual

working in he ransporaion

indusry.

LC manages DODs

Srucured raining Programs;

develops mainenance and con-

srucion raining maerials and

programs; coordinaes semi-

nars, workshops, and coner-

ences or coninuing educaion

and proessional developmen;

and conracs wih he privae

and public secors or unique

raining needs.

Te DOD Srucured raining Program is a deparmen-sancioned, progressiveraining curriculum ha requires specifc work-relaed raining be compleed a each

level o an employees career pah. DOD suppors and promoes an environmen

o coninual learning and eels ha raining is a necessary componen and an inegral

par o career advancemen. Srucured raining can involve proessional developmen,

echnical skills raining, coninuing educaion, and hands-on and on-he-job raining.

Te program manages he work orce developmen or he personnel in consrucion,

mainenance, and supervisory/leadership posiions. Te program also provides liaison

assisance o headquarers personnel and disric raining personnel or policy inerpre

aion and compliance decisions.

Te Consrucion and Maerials raining Program manages he Inspecor/echnician

Cerifcaion Program or DOD and he Louisiana ransporaion indusry. Tis

program develops consrucion and maerials raining maerials and coordinaes he

raining, esing, auhorizaion, cerifcaion, and re-cerifcaion o inspecors and

echnicians saewide in each area o consrucion.

Te Mainenance raining Program ocuses on he developmen o new job-specifc

courses relaed o job uncions, work processes and sae operaion o equipmen used

by mainenance feld personnel. Tese courses promoe an awareness o sae pracices

and atiudes needed or maximum job perormance.

DOTD Structured Training ProgramDOTD Structured Training Program

LRC coninues o manage he

Inspecor/echnician cerifcaion

program or he LouisianaDeparmen o ransporaion and

Developmen and he Louisiana

ransporaion indusry. e char

a righ shows all cerifcaion

acions or fscal year 2009-2010

(91 new consrucion cerifcaions

awarded; 73 re-cerifcaions

processed).


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Construction and Maintenance Course Development

Presentations/Classes

Tere were 16 courses/projecs developed or revised dur-ing his ime period, 10 in consrucion and 6 in maine-

nance.

Construction Training Course/Projects Completed

Sampling and esing o Plasic Concree Manual -

Implemened

Inroducion o Highway Plan eading - Complee

Base Course Inspecion Manual - Implemened

Surveying wih ransis, Teodolies, and oal

Saions Manual - Implemened Lab Saey Procedures or Secion 19 - Implemened

Insrucion Video or DOD 304 - Deermina-

ion o Specifc Graviy and Densiy Characerisics o

Compressed Asphalic Mixures - Compleed

Consrucion Leveling - evision Implemened

evision o Applicaion o Qualiy Assurance Specifca-

ions or Asphalic Concree Mixures - Compleed

Governmenal Ehics/Ehics or Consrucion

Personnel - evision

Inroducion o ransporaion Permis (sel sudy

course or Secion 43 )- Implemened

Maintenance Courses/Projects Completed

Prevenive Mainenance o DOD Vehicles -

Compleed

Sewer Je Par 1 and Par II SOCL - Implemened

Aspen Bridge Access Uni Model A40 Par I and Par II

SOCL - Compleed

Mainenance Mah Volume II - Compleed

Basic Flagging Procedures evision or use in

Immersive Virual Learning Environmen

Herbicide Spray ig SOCL - Compleed

Tere are 10 projecs currenly on-going, 8 in consrucionand 2 in mainenance.

Construction Current/On-Going Projects

evision oPCC Paving Inspection Manual

evision oPCC Plant Inspection Manual

evision oStructural Concrete Inspection Volumes I

and IIManuals

Video or Sampling and esing o Plasic Concree

Qualiy Assurance Manuals or Asphalic Concree

and Embankmen and Base Course Conex Sensiive Soluions raining Maerials

Managemen o he Inspecor/echnician Cerifcaion

Program or DOD and he Louisiana ransporaion

Indusry

Maintenance Current/On-Going Projects

Basic Business Mah

SOCL Mobile Crash Atenuaor

Basic Flagging in Immersive Virual Learning Environmen -

13 classes, 305 sudens

Lockou/agou or Secion- 45 - 25 sudens

How o Use Adobe eader or IQ-Box egisraion

How o Use he Basic Funcions o EN

How o Use he PC raining Worksaion

ra c Conrol hrough Mainenance Work Areas -

104 sudens

Dump ruck Saey and Operaions and Operaor Daily

Mainenance o Dump rucks Superpave Mix Design and Analysis in Disric 62 -

9 sudens

Asphalic Concree Mix Design Class or McNeese

Universiy - 16 sudens

rain-he-rainer disance learning or revised Subsance

Abuse, Harassmen, and Violence in he Workplace classes

or Disric rainers

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Management

DevelopmentTrainingTis program oversees several mandaory

supervisory, managemen developmen,

and career developmen raining pro-

grams: he Leadership raining Program,

a srucured raining program or DOD

employees in a proessional job series;

he Engineering echnician Supervisory

raining Program, a supervisory rainingprogram or DOD engineering echni-

cians; he DOD Supervisory Maine-

nance raining Program or rades, cras,

and mainenance supervisors; and he

Civil Service Supervisory raining pro-

gram or supervisors no covered by oher

DOD raining programs.

Courses or hese raining programs are

delivered hrough several sources: he

Governors O ce Comprehensive Public

raining Program (CPP), he DOD

Human esources Secion, he LC/

DOD Conrac wih he LSU Division

o Workorce Developmen, and in-house

raining courses developed by LC.

Tere are currenly 2,471 employees

acively paricipaing in he manage-

men developmen raining programs.

Te number o insrucor-led individual

course compleions or his period o ime

was 1,911.



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Workforce Development

Tis is a new program creaed a LC o accomplish heollowing: develop and creae an annual Workorce Develop-

men Plan (WDP); serve as liaison o LC ransporaion

Curriculum Council (CC) as oulined in PPM 47; collabo-

rae specifcally wih Disric Adminisraors o suppor sa

developmen, raining and planning; and coordinae Execuive

Leadership raining.

Te frs DOD WDP was compiled or he DOD Secreary

during 2009-2010. Te plan provides execuives and managers

wih a ramework o make sa ng decisions based on DODssraegic goals and objecives and a se o desired workorce

compeencies ha would help sa perorm heir jobs more e-

fcienly and eecively. Te Plan addresses he need o atrac

and reain sa ha can mee a changing work environmen

and expecaions such as an increase in reiremens due o he

rapidly aging workorce, he challenge o compeiion or jobs

wih he privae secor, an increasingly mobile workorce, and

he necessiy o pursuing a ater organizaional srucure. Tis

Plan analyses he Deparmens work, workorce, and sraegic

direcion o creae a beter plan or developing he workorceneeded or he uure.

Headquarters Training

Tis program assiss secion heads and designaed secionraining coordinaors in providing heir employees he raining

prescribed by he raining programs governing heir employ-

ees posiions. Tis program provided he ollowing or he

Headquarers secions:

Orienaion Monhly presenaion a new employee ori-

enaion. Tis year provided 112 new employees inormaion

abou respecive raining programs and how o ulfll individual

raining requiremens.

Excepion repors I an employees raining is incomplee

a he ime o a proposed personnel acion, such as a meriincrease or promoion, an excepion may be allowed i i is he

resul o circumsances over which he employee has no con-

rol, such as scheduling or unavailabiliy. Over 100 employee

raining records were reviewed and excepions graned his

year.

esing esing sessions are held 3 imes a monh or sel-

sudy courses. Employees were given 105 ess or dieren

courses his year.

raining Tis year classes were conduced o rain 111

employees in opics o include: Basic Flagging, ra c Conrol

hrough Mainenance Work Areas, Lockou/agou, Dump

ruck Saey and Operaions, and Operaor Daily Mainenance

o Dump rucks

Support for Higher Education


LC coordinaes he saewide DOD Engineer esource

Developmen Program (EDP), which provides srucured

roaional raining or enry-level engineers. LC also manages

he Cooperaive Educaion Program or engineering sudens, a

cooperaive endeavor beween DOD and universiies wihin

Louisiana o employ ull-ime universiy sudens o perorm

engineering work and receive pracical experience in he feld

o civil and ransporaion engineering. During 2009-2010, 8

people paricipaed in he EDP and 34 paricipaed in he Co-

operaive Educaion Program. In addiion, 48 graduae sudens

were suppored hrough LC research projecs during 2009-

2010.

LC also aciliaes he DOD Suppor Program or Civil En-

gineering Sudies, a cooperaive endeavor beween DOD and

Louisiana sae universiies wih civil engineering programs. I

provides pracical experience o civil engineering sudens who

selec ransporaion-relaed opics among heir engineering

design courses. DOD suppors his program fnancially, and

universiies gran academic credi o is paricipans. Te senior

design projecs are ransporaion-relaed and are included

in courses or which junior- or senior-level sudens receive a

grade. A he end o he senior design projec, paricipans pro-

vide copies o he fnal repor o LC and give a 15-20 minue

presenaion. LSU, Universiy o Louisiana a Laayete, and

McNeese Sae Universiy paricipaed in he program during

2009-2010.

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TTEC

he ransporaion rain-

ing and Educaion Cener(EC) is dedicaed o he

delivery o ransporaion rain-

ing, proessional developmen

opporuniies, coninuing edu-

caion, and echnology ranser

o engineers, echnicians, and

oher proessionals rom Louisi-

anas public and privae secors.

Trough his new aciliy, LC

is expanding he scope andavailabiliy o raining, hereby

serving a larger populaion.

ECs sraegy is o assis and

enable workorce developmen

using principles o sraegic hu-

man capial improvemen. Te

goals o his sraegy are o:

Creae and provide sound

raining.

ransiion curren classes/

raining ino he disance

learning environmen where

appropriae.

Incorporae insrucional

design conceps, uiliz-

ing he alens o ormally

rained designers o updae

and modernize courses.

External Training Activities

LCs exernal raining program, which includes even managemen o workshopsand conerences, coninues o supply he proessional developmen and echnical skills

raining necessary or sraegic human capial improvemen, workorce developmen,

and he career growh o all DOD employees and he greaer ransporaion com-

muniy o he region. Tis raining program is vial or DOD, local governmens, and

privae indusry. Exernal raining saisfes specifc needs by providing job relaed rain

ing opics hrough parnerships wih universiies and privae raining providers.

EC was he hos or he majoriy o hese evens which included Naional Highway

Insiue (NHI), Federal Highway Adminisraion (FHWA), Louisiana Sae Univer-

siy, Universiy o New Orleans, and Norhwesern Universiy courses. Te number osudens atending EC courses increased by 35% his year as 4842 sudens atended

over 300 courses oered by EC rom July 2009 hrough June 2010, an 8% increase

over he pas year. EC also achieved a 9% decrease in he raining cos per suden

by careully monioring and managing raining conracs and agreemens. Te breakou

o courses is shown below along wih he number o sudens per class ype:


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TTEC

Individual Registrations

TTEC Researches New Learning Technology in Classrooms

In addiion o managing courses in-house, he cener provides

he opporuniy o atend courses, conerences, seminars, and

oher educaional and raining opporuniies oered by ouside

paries. During 2009-2010, LC managed regisraions or

502 employees o atend conerences, courses, seminars, and

oher educaional and raining opporuniies. EC was also

responsible all he logisical, sie managemen, auomaion, and

audio/visual suppor or 11 conerences atended by 1125 par-

icipans a various meropolian areas around he sae.

EC is progressing

wih he Evaluaion o

Knowledge ranser in

an Immersive Virual

Learning Environmen

or he ransporaion

Communiy projec

(10-1SS). Tere are

approximaely 800

deahs in highwaywork zones each year

(Naional Work Zone

Saey Inormaion

Clearinghouse, 2009).

Tis research projec explores he use o virual learning

echnology or work zone raining, wih he goal o increase

work zone saey. Te use o virual echnologies promises

o be an exciing new raining mehod ha increases suden

engagemen and subsequen knowledge ranser, and in he

conex o his sudy, increase saey awareness as well.

Tis research esed he use o an Immersive Virual Learn-

ing Environmen (IVLE) simulaing real-world highway

work zones. IVLEs go beyond radiional visual learning

by presening images ha combine a new orm o visual

learning and virual experienial learning in a way ha is

more congruen wih an

individuals visual images

sored in memory, hus

improving learning ranser

and reenion. Such engage-

men in he learning aciviy

allows learners o move

beyond he memorizaion

o he presened conceps

and ino he applicaion andsynhesis o he maerial.

Tis is he frs experimen

ha LC is aware o ha

used a sample o he rade

workorce rom governmen and privae sources, who were

diverse in educaion, socioeconomic background, and pro-

pensiy o use echnology. Tis research expanded he sci-

enifc knowledge o adul educaion, specifcally ha which

deals wih knowledge ranser in an IVLE as i enhances and

supplemens radiional learning.

Te purpose o his research sudy was o deermine i an

IVLE increased engagemen in he learning aciviy such ha

learners moved beyond memorizaion o presened conceps

and ino he applicaion and synhesis o he maerial.

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Tech Transfer

As LCs ormal research

program coninues o

invesigae soluions o Louisi-

anas ransporaion problems,

he echnology ranser pro-

gram serves he wider ranspor-

aion communiy by imple-

mening hese research fndings

and echnological innovaions.

Wheher hrough echnical

assisance on DOD projecs,publicaions, videos, seminars,

or workshops, echnology

ransers ulimae goal is o dis-

seminae pracical knowledge o

municipaliies, parishes, and he

ransporaion indusry a large.

In Ocober 2009, over 100 ransporaion proessionals, engineers, and consulans

gahered or a day o concree opics and discussion in he EC audiorium. Mike

Ayers wih he American Concree Pavemen Associaion (ACPA) kicked o he semi-

nar by presening Concree Basics. Ayers discussed he essenials or building qualiy

pavemens such as design, maerials, consrucion pracices, and qualiy conrol and

qualiy assurance (QC/QA) programs.

Te seminar hen held a brie roundable discussion on curren issues and problems in

he concree feld. Aernoon opics ocused on uure echnologies including calorime-ry, mauriy, and non-desrucive esing (ND) devices. Following hese discussions,

yson upnow, LC, spoke on air conen in Louisiana where he explained air ypes,

benefs o using air in concree, mix designs, and oher saes specifcaions. He also

presened a summary o he y ash research ha is currenly being explored a LC,

explaining es mehods, chosen maerials, recen progress, and preliminary resuls.

Te seminar concluded wih a fnal roundable discussion. In his discussion, panel

members answered quesions on Inernaional oughness Index (II) specifcaion

updaes, he microwave moisure es, cross siching, and ho weaher concree speci-

fcaions.

. . . .

esearchers and engineers wih LC, LADOD, and Louisiana universiies repre-

sened Louisiana a he ransporaion esearch Board (B) 89h Annual Meeing

ha was held in Washingon, D.C., January 10-14, 2010. Speakers rom across Loui-

siana presened resuls rom numerous LC sponsored research projecs hrough

presenaions as well as poser sessions. More han 10,000 ransporaion proessionals

rom around he world atended he even.

In March, LC coninued is seminar series o he year by inviing local B speakers

o share heir B presenaions, allowing ransporaion proessionals who were un-

able o atend he Washingon meeing useul inormaion regarding Louisianas laes

ransporaion research. Wih nine sessions in opics ranging rom geoechnical, pave-

men, policy, maerials, and ra c research, 25 presenaions were made hroughou

he wo-day seminar a he EC aciliy. Te seminar atraced over 75 ransporaion

proessionals rom across he sae. Te session ha gained he mos atenion was he

second session, which consised o our pavemen paper presenaions. Pavemen op-

ics included he use o sabilized blended calcium sulae, new approaches o indexing

roughness, feld ruting under dieren ypes o loading, and alleviaing ransverse join

auling in joined concree.

Seminar Series Focuses on Concrete,

Transportation Research Board Papers


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Te Louisiana echnical Assisance Program (LAP) conin-

ued is raining and proessional developmen eors provid-

ing over 150 learning opporuniies o over 3,000 local and

sae ransporaion proessionals across he sae. Tese

oerings included radiional workshops, on-sie classes,

and webinars or e-learning sessions. LAP parnered wih

DODs ra c Engineering O ce and he Louisiana Mu-

nicipal Associaion o develop and broadcas a series o ra c

engineering 101 webinars. Tese webinars provided DOD

an e cien way o convey DOD policy updaes o he localcommuniy and o encourage eedback rom local parici-

pans. LAP also coordinaed a series o saewide lisening

sessions wih he local ransporaion communiy on he new

DOD driveway rule and oher meeings on he righ o way

program.

LAP parnered wih he Louisiana Parish Engineers and

Supervisors Associaion o presen wo saewide coner-

ences, which included echnical opics as well as ehics, public

bid law requiremens, and oher imporan opics. In conjunc-

ion wih he Louisiana American Public Works Associaion,

LAP sponsored a frs ime susainabiliy or local com-

muniies workshop a EC, which eaured naional and

local speakers. LAP coninued o expand is local road saey

eors oering relaed raining, muliple echnical assiss and

managemen o over 100 low-cos saey improvemens.

Te Louisiana Sraegic Highway Saey Plan includes LAP

and he Local oad Saey as a member o he Implemena-

ion eam and Marie Walsh, LAP direcor, as he co-chair

o he Occupan Proecion Focus Area eam. LAP also

assised he Louisiana Highway Saey Commission and he

Deparmen o Public Saey by planning and conducing nine

impaired driving workshops or local and sae law enorce-

men o cers as well as a rain he rainer workshop or speed

managemen aciliaors.

Marie Walsh, LAP direcor, paricipaes in naional road

saey eors and was appoined as an associae member o

AASHOs Sanding Commitee on Highway ra c Saey

Local Technical Assistance Program

he Louisiana Local echnical Assisance Program(LAP) is one o 52 ceners in a naional nework ha

provides services o he local ransporaion communiy

in each sae, Puero ico, and he Naive American ribal

areas. Each cener operaes independenly o develop and

implemen programs ha bes mee he needs o he local

ransporaion agencies while sharing a common naional

mission o oser a sae, e cien, and environmenally

sound surace ransporaion sysem by improving skills

and increasing knowledge o he ransporaion workorce.

LAP also shares our naional ocus areas ha include

inrasrucure mainenance, saey, workorce developmen,

and value delivery.

Te LAP provides an array o services geared specifcally o

he local agencies and personnel ha manage and mainain

Louisianas local roads and ransporaion sysem. raining

classes and workshops have been primary services oered

since he program began in 1986. Classes are rouinely o-

ered a eigh locaions around he sae as par o he ongo-

ing oads Scholar program. Special opic classes are also

oered, and on-sie on-demand workshops are also avail-

able. LAP also provides echnical assisance on reques,

publishes a quarerly newsleter, and mainains a publicaion

and video library.

2009-2010 Highlights

and o he AASHO Subcommitee on Saey Managemen.

She is a member o he Naional LAP Associaions Execuive

Commitee and serves as he co-chair o he NLAPA Saey

Workgroup. She was honored wih he 2010 NLAPA Naiona

Achievemen Award a he annual meeing in July.


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Tech Transfer

Project Capsules

09-5C

Evaluaion o Non-Desrucive echnologies or

Consrucion Qualiy Conrol o HMA and PCC

Pavemens in Louisiana

09-2PImplemenaion o olling Weigh Deecom-

eer (WD) in PMS and Pavemen Preservaion

07-1BEvaluaion o Warm Mix Asphal echnology in

Flexible Pavemens08-3SS Developing Louisiana Crash educion Facors

09-1S

Monioring Load Disribuion and Faigue Cos

Esimaes o Heavy ruck Loads on Louisiana

Sae Bridges

10-1GMeasuring Levee Elevaion Heighs in Norh

Louisiana

10-1SS

Evaluaion o Knowledge ranser in an Im-

mersive Virual Learning Environmen or he

ransporaion Communiy

09-2S

Perormance and Analysis o Concree Bridge

ailing Using Convenional and Composie

einorcemen

08-3SEvaluaion o Design Mehods o Deermine

Scour Dephs or Bridge Srucures

10-1C

Evaluaion o Surace esisiviy Measuremens

as an Alernaive o he apid Chloride Permea-

biliy es or Qualiy Assurance and Accepance

Technical Assistance ProjectsDissemination of Information

LCs echnical assisance program provides labora-

ory esing, feld esing, and orensic invesigaion in

direc response o Deparmenal inquiries or exper

analysis on DOD projecs. LC also provides assis-

ance o sae universiies or laboraory or feld esing

on research projecs no unded by LC. During he

2009-2010 fscal year, LC responded o 112 echni-

cal assisance requess.

0

20

40

60

80

100

01 02 03 04 05 06 07-08*

08-09

09-10

echnology ransers ulimae goal is o disseminae pracicalknowledge o municipaliies, parishes, and he ranspora-

ion indusry a large. LCs Publicaions and Digial Media

Developmen Program mees DODs inormaional and

raining needs hrough newsleters, brochures, annual repors,

capsules, Web developmen, and video producion/pho-

ography. During 2009-2010, LC published 12 echnical

summaries, 10 projec capsules, 4 echnology oday newsle-

ers, 13 fnal repors, and 2 echnical assisance repors. For

a complee lising o publicaions and presenaions by all

LC personnel, please visi our Web sie a www.ltrc.lsu.edu/09_10publications.html.

*January 1, 2007-June 30, 2008


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Technical Assistance Reports

09-1A

Mini adhakrishnan

and Cheser G. Wilmo

Impac o Le Lane ruck esricion Sraegies on Mulilane Highways

in LouisianaA Lieraure eview

06-1A Samuel B. Cooper, Jr. Evaluaion o HMA Mixures Conaining Sasobi

Final Reports & Technical Summaries

423/

424

Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, Qiming

Chen, and Sungmin YoonUse o einorced Soil Foundaion (SF) oSuppor Shallow Foundaion

437*ober N. Bruce, Jr., John J.

oller, and Henry G. ussellSrucural Monioring o igoles Pass Bridge

438John Eggers and yson

D. upnow

Flexural Srengh and Faigue o Seel Fiber einorced Concree

(2004 Hale Boggs Deck)

439Khalid Alshibli, Ayman M. Okeil,

and Bashar Alramahi, Ph.D.Updae o Correlaions beween Cone Peneraion and Boring Log Daa

440 Aziz SaberField Verifcaion or he Eeciveness o Coninuiy Diaphragms or

Skewed Coninuous P/C P/S Concree Girder Bridges

441Ayman M. Okeil, Yilmaz Bingol,

and Md. ubia FerdousA Novel echnique For Siening Seel Srucures

443 Guoqiang Li, Aziz Saber Eliminaion o Deck Joins Using a Corrosion esisan FP Approach

444 Mosaa A. Elseif

Analysis o Seasonal Srain Measuremens in Asphal Maerials under

Acceleraed Pavemen esing and Comparing Field Perormance and

Laboraory Measured Binder ension Properies

446Gavin P. Gaureau and Pallavi

BhandariDevelopmen o a Geoechnical Inormaion Daabase

447 D. M. Gri n, Jr.Volume Balance and oxiciy Analysis o Highway Sormwaer Discharge rom

Cross Lake Bridge

449

Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh, Sungmin

Yoon, and Ching sai Calibraion o esisance Facors Needed in he LFD Design o Driven Piles

457 Mark Marinez Te ideabiliy o a Deeced Bridge Approach Slab

466 Zhi-Qiang DengFirs Flush eacor or Sormwaer reamen or Elevaed

Linear ransporaion Projecs

LTRC Publications

* echnical Summary no ye published


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Professional Organizations

Transportation Research Board (TRB)Committees/Panels AHB20 Freeway Operaions Commitee

ABJ70 Arifcial Inelligence and Advanced Compuing Ap-

plicaions

ANB10 (3) Subcommitee on Emergency Evacuaion

Highway Saey Manual ask Force

AFS70 Geosynheics

AFP20 Exploraion and Classifcaion o Earh Maerials

AFP40 Physicochemical and Biological Processes in Soils

AFP10 Pavemen Managemen Sysems

AFS10 ransporaion Earhworks

AFD60 Flexible Pavemen Design

AFP60 Engineering Behavior o Unsauraed Soil

AFF80 Srucural Fiber einorced Plasics

AFF30 Commitee on einorced Concree Bridges

A2C02(1) mehods o analyzing seel bridges

AFF40 Non-desrucive Evaluaion o Srucures Subcom-

mitee

AFN30 Durabiliy o Concree (Chair)

AFN10 Basic esearch and Emerging echnologies elaed

o Concree

AFN40 Concree Maerials and Placemen echniques AFN20 Properies o Concree (Communicaions Coordi-

naor) AFK 20 Characerisics o Biuminous Maerials

AHD 20 Pavemen Mainenance Commitee

AFK 40 Characerisics o Biuminous-Aggregae Combina-

ions o Mee Surace equiremens (Chair)

AFK 50 Characerisics o Biuminous Paving Mixures o

Mee Srucural equiremens

AHD 20 Pavemen Mainenance Commitee

AFD 20 Pavemen Monioring , Evaluaion and Daa Sorage

AFP 30 Soil and ock Properies, Friend o he Commitee AFK 00 Biuminous Maerials Secion

AFK 10 General Issues in Asphal echnology

AHD18 Pavemen Preservaion

ABG40 Library and Inormaion Science or

ransporaion (LIS)

NCHP 20-68A Domesic Scan Program

NCHP 26-83(5) Climae Change and he Highway

Sysem: Impacs and Adapaion Approaches

NCHP 20-89 Inellecual Propery Sewardship Guide or

ransporaion Deparmens

NCHP 20-91 European oad Associaions ER-NEoad esearch Program

NCHP Projec 10-05, Modulus Based Consrucion

Specifcaion and Issues or Highway Earhwork and

Unbound Base Maerials

Training Memberships Souheas ask Force on echnician raining and Qualifca-

ion

Consrucion Cerifcaion Commitee DOD esing Procedures Commitee

LA Comprehensive Public raining Program (CPP)

Curriculum Commitee

EN o LSO Planning Commitee

CPP Saewide raining Coordinaors represenaive

or DOD

Civil Service Mandaory raining Coordinaors

represenaive or DOD

DOD Loss Prevenion Commitee

American Sociey or raining and Developmen LAOD - Louisiana rainers Group

Sociey o Governmen Meeing Planners

Special Library Associaion

American Associaion o Sae Highway and ransporaion

O cials esearch Advisory Commitee

ransporaion Knowledge Nework ask Force

(AASHO/RC/KN/F)

Naional ransporaion raining Direcors Organizaion

(Presiden)

Miscellaneous Inernaional Seering Commitee or ravel Survey Coner-

ences

US Universiies Council on Geoechnical Engineering

esearch (USUCGE)

Engineering Geology and Sie Characerizaion Commitee

Geo-Insiue.


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Louisiana Engineering Sociey (LES)

LSU Communicaion across he Curriculum (CxC)

American Associaion or Wind Engineering Louisiana DOD Commitee onImplemenaion o AASH-

O-LFD

American Academy o Mechanics (AAM)

American Sociey or Engineering Educaion (ASEE)

American Sociey o Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Geo-Insiue Geoechnics o Soil Erosion and

Scour Commitee

Sociey o Plasic Engineers

Inernaional Commitee or Composie Engineering

FHWA Binder Exper ask group member FHWA Emulsion esper ask orce member

Associaion o Asphal Paving echnologis (AAP)

Managemen Commitee o he Asphal Pavemen Analyzer

Users Group

Souheasern Asphal User Producer Group, Board Member

esearch Advisory Group o he Naional Sone, Sand, and

Gravel Associaion, Board Member

Chi Epsilon, Civil Engineering Deparmen Level Honor

Sociey

au Bea Pi, College o Engineering Level Honor Sociey Phi Kappa Phi, Universiy Level Honor Sociey

American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) ransporaion and Developmen Insiue, Planning and

Economics Commitee

Highway Saey Commitee

ASCE-ACI Join Commitee 343 Concree Bridge Design

Associae Edior, Journal o Bridge Engineering

Commitee Member, Dynamics Commitee Member, Compuaional Mechanics

Commitee Chair, Experimenal Analysis & Insrumenaion

Commitee Member, Srucural Wind Eecs

Journal o Maerials in Civil Engineering, Associae Edior

Maerials Engineering Division, Biuminous Maerials Com-

mitee

Louisiana Chaper o &DI Execuive Commitee

American Concrete Institute (ACI) Commitee 440 Fiber einorced Polymer einorcemen

Associae Member, ACI Commitee 335, Composie and

Hybrid Srucures

Consuling Member, ACI Commitee 423, Presressed

Concree

American Society for Testing andMaterials (ASTM) Subcommitee D04.20 on Empirical ess o Biuminous

Mixures

Subcommitee D04.22 on Eec o Waer & Oher Elemens

on Biuminous Coaed Aggregaes

Subcommitee D04.24 on Biuminous Surace reamens

Subcommitee D04.25 on Analysis o Biuminous Mixures,

Chair

Subcommitee D04.26 on Fundamenal / Mechanisic ess,

Subcommitee D04.44 on heological ess

Subcommitee D04.45 on Specifcaions or Modifed

Asphal

Subcommitee D04.46 on Durabiliy & Disillaion ess


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StaffListing

Of ce o the DirectorHarold Skip Paul, P.E., Direcoroni Daigle, Execuive Services AssisanTeresa ankin, Adminisraive Managerina Blanchard, Accounan

External ProgramsVijaya (V.J.) Gopu, Ph.D., P.E., Associae Direcor

Research and DevelopmentMark Morvan, P.E., Associae Direcor, esearchBridge LeBlanc, Execuive Services Assisan

Pavement and Geotechnical ResearchZhongjie Doc Zhang, Ph.D., P.E.Pavemen & Geoechnical esearch AdminisraorPavement ResearchKevin Gaspard, P.E., Pavemen esearch Engineer ManagerMark Marinez, P.E., Pavemen esearch EngineerMichell errell, Pavemen echnician 5Shawn Elisar, Pavemen echnician 4Glen Gore, Pavemen esearch Specialis 2Pavement Research Facility - ALFZhong Wu, Ph.D., P.E., Assisan Proessor - esearch

Acceleraed Pavemen esearch Program ManagerGeorge Crosby, C.P.C., Pavemen esearch Specialis 3Keih Gillespie, Pavemen esearch Specialis 3Leicia Courville, Ph.D., E.I., esearch Associae 4

Xiaoming Yang, esearch Associae 4Geotechnical ResearchGavin Gaureau, P.E., Senior Geoechnical esearch EngineerKhalil Hania, E.I., Geoechnical esearch Engineer

Alvin Mix, III, Senior Geoechnical echnician

Douglas Hinon, Geoechnical echnician 3Paden Schilling, Geoechnical echnician 3Geotechnical Engineering Research LaboratoryMurad Abu-Farsakh, Ph.D., P.E., Associae Proessor, esearch

GEL ManagerQiming Chen, Ph.D., esearch Associae 4Pallavi Bhandari, Compuer Analys III

Xinbao Yu, Ph.D., esearch Associae 3Benjamin Comeaux, esearch Specialis

Materials ResearchChris Abadie, P.E., Maerials esearch AdminisraorAsphalt ResearchWilliam Bill King, Jr., P.E., Asphal esearch ManagerMd. Sharear Kabir, E.I., Asphal esearch EngineerGregory ullier, Senior Asphal echnician

William Gueho, Asphal echnician 5Parick Frazier, Asphal echnician 4Concrete Researchyson upnow, Ph.D., P.E., Concree esearch EngineerParick Icenogle, E.I., Concree esearch Engineer

andy Young, Senior Concree echnicianMat ircui, Concree echnician 5Shane Laws, Engineering echnician 3Engineering Materials Characterization Research Facility(EMCRF)Louay Mohammad, Ph.D., Proessor, EMCF Manager

Abraham Bae, Ph.D., P.E., esearch Associae 4Amar aghavendra, P.E., Applicaions Engineering ManagerMinkyum Kim, Ph.D., esearch AssociaeStructures Research

Walid Alaywan, MSCE, P.E., Senior Srucuresesearch Engineer

Planning/IntermodalCheser Wilmo, Ph.D., Associae Proessorechnology ranser & rainingSam Cooper, MSCE, P.E., Associae Direcor,

echnology ranser & rainingDavid Jumper, I echnical SupporMary Mumphrey, Audio Visual Consulan

Angela Benn, Adminisraive Program SpecialisPublications & Digital Media Development

Jenny Speighs, Public Inormaion DirecorNick Champion, Audio and Video Producion

Jenny Gilber, echnical WrierEmily Wole, Muli Media Specialisechnology ranserMichael Boudreaux, P.E., echnology ranser Engineer


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StaffListing

Structured raining Programsea inka McFarland, DOD Srucured raining DirecorCindy winer, Consrucion and Maerials Program ManagerC. Gordon Smih, Managemen Developmen

Program ManagerKaren Cordell, Headquarers raining Program ManagerCandy Cardwell, raining & Developmen Program Manager,

Workorce Developmen PlanningMike Elliot, Engineering echnician DCLKeih Beard, Engineering echnician DCLKelvin Sone, raining and Developmen Specialisex ansome, raining and Developmen Specialis

John Whiworh, esearch Associae

External Educational ResourcesGlynn Cavin, Ph.D., ransporaion raining and

Educaion Cener (EC) AdminisraorMary Leah Coco, LC raining Evens Program Manager

Allison Landry, raining and Developmen SpecialisMelissa Lee, raining and Developmen SpecialisSandy Brady, LibrarianBrenda Wole, EC Adminisraive AssisanLocal echnical Assistance ProgramMarie Walsh, Ph.D., Direcor, LAPBob Breaux, LAP O ce ManagerDavid McFarland, LAP eaching Associae

LTRC Head of Structured TrainingHonored with Dunbar Award

ea inka McFarland, DOD Srucured raining Direcor, has been named a 2009

recipien o he highly eseemed Charles E. Dunbar, Jr. Award, he highes honor classi-

fed sae employees can receive or heir service o he ciizens o Louisiana. Te Civil

Service League besows he award on local, sae, and municipal civic serv ice employees

who disinguish hemselves hrough unselfsh service, conribuions oward workplace improvemen, personal iniiaive, andvoluneer communiy service.

inka holds a Cerifcaion in Supervisory echniques (CS, 1992) and is a Cerifed Public Manager (CPM, 1994.) She was

a member o he commitee ha worked in cooperaion wih Louisiana Sae Universiys Division o Workorce Develop-

men o implemen a cerifcaion program or raining and developmen o mee naional sandards. In 2000, she compleed

he series o pilo classes leading o a Louisiana Sae rainer Cerifcaion and a Cerifcae in Human esource Develop-

men wih an emphasis on adul educaion. She also acively served in he Louisiana Sociey o Cerifed Public Managers

organizaion, acing as he Nominaion Chair or hree years and a Direcor-a-Large or Membership or six .

Over he years, McFarland has also paricipaed in many major DOD eors. She oversees DODs Workorce Devel-

opmen Policy, PPM 59, which esablished he Deparmens workorce philosophy. Te policy ormally recognizes ha

developing a workorce hrough srucured raining, proessional developmen, coninuing educaion, and on-he-job rain-

ing is essenial o maximize employee poenial and provide qualifed personnel crucial o he eecive managemen o he

ransporaion sysem. McFarland also served as a lead member o a commitee ha won DODs eam o he Year award in

2002 or revising he Srucured raining Program or DODs Engineering echnician series. Ou-daed raining require-

mens were revised, and 45 new job-specifc raining programs were pu in place. However, he accomplishmen o which

she is mos proud was he concepion, implemenaion, and managemen o he ebuilding Opporuniies and Developmen

(OAD) Program, a lieracy skills upgrade program allowing work release ime or employees o learn o read or work oward

a GED. DOD had more han 90 employees who received heir GED during he eigh years he program was in place.

DOD was he frs sae agency wih such a program.


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ichard Savoie, P.E., Chairman

Chie Engineer

LADOD

Norma Jean Matei, Ph.D., P.E.

Chair, Civil and Environmenal Engineering

Universiy o New Orleans

Ernes Walker, Ph.D., P.E.Dean, College o Engineering

Souhern Universiy

J.O. Uppo, Ph.D., P.E.

Coordinaor, Deparmen o Civil Engineering

McNeese Sae Universiy

George Voyiadjis, Ph.D.

Chairman, Deparmen o Civil & Environmenal Engineering

Louisiana Sae Universiy

Eric Kalivoda, Ph.D., P.E.

Assisan Secreary

LADOD

Ken McManis, Ph.D., P.E.

Proessor and Head o Deparmen o Civil Engineering

Universiy o Louisiana a Laayete

Aziz Saber, Ph.D., P.E.

Proessor o Civil Engineering & ScienceLouisiana ech Universiy

Bob Bruce, Ph.D., P.E.

School o Science and Engineering

ulane Universiy

Harold . Paul, P.E., ex o cio

LC Direcor

Genevieve Smih, observerFederal Highway AdminisraionLT

RCPolicyC

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