Honorary Member since 2001

Widely recognized pavement design expert and long-time former Portland Cement Association (PCA) employee Robert G. Packard died on December 3, 2004. Bob joined PCA in 1952 and served in a number of positions in the paving and transportation department. When PCA’s paving division merged with the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) in 1992, he joined ACPA as Director of Engineering and Design. He retired from ACPA in 1997, but continued to work as a consultant to ACPA on a variety of technical projects, including the concrete industry review of the proposed mechanistic-empirical design procedure for concrete pavements.

Over the years, Bob provided technical support to numerous government agencies, technical organizations, and industry groups. An unassuming person, he was at his best when discussing technical issues related to analysis, design, and performance of concrete pavements. His enthusiasm was equally high whether he was discussing these issues with technical experts or novices. Bob is best known for the widely used concrete pavement thickness design procedures he developed while working at PCA. These include the following:

• Packard, R.G. Thickness Design for Concrete Highway and Street Pavements. EB109.01, PCA, Skokie, Ill., 1984.
• Packard, R.G. Design of Concrete Airport Pavement. PCA, Skokie, Ill., 1973.
• Packard, R.G. Slab Thickness Design for Industrial Concrete Floors on Grade. IS195.01D, PCA, Skokie, Ill., 1976.
• Structural Design of Roller-Compacted Concrete for Industrial Pavements. IS233.01, PCA, Skokie, Ill., 1987.

A recipient of many awards and recognitions, Bob was awarded the Hartmann-Hirschman Award by ACPA in 1997, in recognition of his leadership in developing design procedures for concrete airfields, highways and local roads and for expanding the transportation community’s knowledge of concrete pavement engineering.

Bob served on the program committee for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th International Conferences on Concrete Pavements (then organized by Purdue University) and published papers in the proceedings from the 1st to 5th International Conferences on Concrete Pavements. He was also actively involved in technical committees of the Transportation Research Board, the American Concrete Institute, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society of Testing and Materials.

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