6th international conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT)
April 4-6, 2022
Nantes Campus (MAST-LAMES), France:
La Cité Nantes Congress Centre | April 4-5
Nantes campus of Université Gustave Eiffel, at Carrousel location near Nantes | April 6
Organized by the Université Gustave Eiffel | Co-sponsored by TRB committee AKP40 (AFD40)
Early Bird Registration through Feb 15! https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9
Due to all the uncertainties provided by the worldwide pandemic situation, the APT2020 Organizing Committee and TRB postponed the 6th International APT Conference from March 2020 to September 2021, then ultimately to April 4-6, 2022!
Following the success of the 5 previous conferences held in Nevada (1999), Minnesota (2004), Spain (2008), California (2012), and Costa-Rica (2016), the 6th APT conference in Nantes will give a great opportunity for researchers and professionals to share their knowledge on:
“Accelerated pavement testing to transport infrastructure innovation”: https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4 https://lames.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/en/
PROGRAM: (https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12)
Main conference THEMES :
Establishing APT Facilities
APT of Portland Cement Concrete
APT of Asphalt Concrete
APT for Airfield pavements
APT of Sustainable and innovative Materials
Testing of maintenance and rehabilitation solutions
Data Analysis and modeling
Instrumentation and data processing
Monitoring and non destructive testing
New Pavement Concepts and APT Challenges
There will be two distinguished lecturers:
• Dr. Imad L. Al-Qadi, Professor, Engineering-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Director-Illinois Center for Transportation, and Director–Smart Transportation Infrastructure Initiative—Prior to joining UIUC, Dr. Imad was Via Professor-Virginia Tech. He has authored/coauthored more than 700 publications; led more than 120 projects to completion; is managing nearly 50 projects annually. He was President–ASCE T&DI Board of Governors and currently is Editor-in-Chief, IJPE. Imad has received numerous prestigious awards including: NSF Young Investigator Award; IGS Award; ASCE Laurel Prize; ARTBA Steinberg Award; and ASCE Turner Award. He is an Emeritus Member-TRB Committee AHD25 and an Honorary Professor at several Universities in Europe, Middle East, and China. In 2010, he was elected to the highest honor, Distinguished Member-ASCE.
• Dr. Sigurdur Erlingsson, Professor, VTI–Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, linked to KTH–The Royal Institute of Technology, and Professor-University of Iceland. In his research, Dr. Erlingsson, has been responsible for VTI´s APT facility consisting of an HVS of type MARK IV. He is further responsible for three instrumented in-service roads with heavy traffic in Northern Sweden. The topic of his talk will be on thin flexible pavements response to heavy loads, instrumentation and modeling and their deterioration in harsh climatic environment.
Keynote : 80 year of Accelerated Pavement Testing in swenden – Historical overview and new prospect
WORKSHOPS: (https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13)
There will be two Workshops during the afternoon of April 3, 2022 (2:00PM – 5:00PM):
W1: Simulation of ambient environment actions in APT
Chairs: Luis Loria-Salazar, UCR and Angel Mateos, UCPRC
Any accelerated pavement test requires that ambient environment actions be simulated adequately. Nonetheless, the meaning of “ambient environment actions” varies from one APT program to another—depending in part on the country or region’s climate—and from one test to another—subject to the pavement/material types used in the testing and the test goals…
W2: APT Program Data for Efficient Present & Future Use
Chairs: Jeremy Lea, UCPRC and Rongzong Wu, UCPRC
This workshop will focus on methods of managing the large quantities of data obtained from an APT program, the processes and procedures for validating and reducing the data to manageable quantities for analysis, and linking the data to associated laboratory and field tests. It will also discuss tying together the entire program’s data…
“Pavement Fatigue Carrousel”:
On the occasion for the 35th anniversary of the pavement carrousel, the LAMES has organized a seminar for the different actors of the public and private sectors.
https://lames.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/en/equipments/the-pavement-fatigue-carrousel
CARROUSEL INFORMATION FLYER:
https://lames.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/fileadmin/redaction/LAMES/Grands_équipements/plaquette_manege_en.pdf
35-Year Program:
https://lames.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/equipements/le-manege-de-fatigue/35-ans-programme
SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS:
There is availability for SPONSORS:
https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16
EXHIBITORS:
—April 4-5: La Cité Nantes Congress Centre
—April 6: exhibitors of experimental devices for APT and other large facilities:
Nantes Campus-Université Gustave Eiffel
Photo of city Nantes by ©Adam Bishop-license [CC BY-SA 3.0] from Wikimedia Commons
Located on the estuary of the Loire, the Erdre and the Sèvre Rivers, about 50 km from the Atlantic Ocean, Nantes, France is the capital city of the Pays de la Loire region and the département of Loire-Atlantique, and was established in 70 BC. Nantes was described by Time magazine in 2004 as the ‘most livable city in Europe’, and it also holds the title of ‘Green European Capital’ for 2013!
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PROGRAM: https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12
WORKSHOPS: https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13
SPONSORS: https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16
Sponsoring Questions: Contact: apt2020-sponsor@ifsttar.fr
EXHIBITORS: https://apt2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15