Thursday, November 19
Your next pavement design homework is here. It is due on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. To do this homework, use the cost data located here. This is the same RS Means cost data you will use for your final project.

 Tuesday, November 17
The problem statement for the end-of-semester project is here.
The accompanying spreadsheet of RS Means cost data is here.

 Tuesday, November 17
Here are a few more slides to add to your slides from last time. Unfortunately, the equations I presented at the end of class last time don't work. There are apparently some typos in the coefficients and I have not been able to find a correct version. So we will have to rely on the nomographs for our concrete pavement design.

 Thursday, November 12
The slides for tonight's lecture are here. We'll also have some handouts.

 Thursday, November 5
Your next pavement design homework is here. It is due next Thursday.

 Wednesday, November 4
I've changed the schedule around a bit. We've already talked about determining the size and spacing of the temperature steel (in JRCP). Tomorrow, we'll talk about determining the size and spacing of tie bars and dowel bars (in JPCP and JRCP).
The slides for tomorrow tonight's lecture are here.
The corrected slides from Tuesday's lecture are here.

 Monday, November 2
The slides for tomorrow tonight's lecture are here.

 Thursday, October 29
The slides for tonight's lecture are here. We'll start talking about rigid pavements and cover everything in Chapter 3 tonight.

 Tuesday, October 27
Many of your spreadsheets produced SN values slightly different than mine. In order to check your spreadsheets, here are my Goal Seek solutions for Homework 4 for both 31 million ESALs (L=0.7) and 35 million ESALs (L=0.8). If your spreadsheets don't produce the same values given my inputs, you've got a bust somewhere.

 Friday, October 23
Your next pavement design homework is here. It is due next Thursday. To do this homework, use the cost data located here. Unfortunately, the library doesn't have the RS Means Site Work & Landscape Cost Data book you need, so I've given you the data from my 2006 copy of the book with the asphalt prices updated to 2009.

 Thursday, October 15
Your first real pavement design homework is here. It is due one week from today.

 Wednesday, October 14
I thought through the derivation I did last night and I realized there is a much easier way to explain it. I've written it up here. The replacement slides are here.

 Tuesday, October 13
Tonight we'll finally put it all together and design a flexible pavement. The slides for tonight are here and the flexible pavement problem we'll be solving is here.

 Thursday, October 8
Tonight we'll discuss the Structural Number (SN) and examine how the properties of the various pavement layers are accommodated in the AASHTO design method. The slides are here.

 Monday, October 5
Tomorrow we will have our first exam of the semester. It is open-book, open-note. Remember to bring engineering paper with you. You will not have room to answer the questions on the test paper itself.

 Thursday, October 1
Tonight, I'm going to introduce the AASHTO Design Equation for flexible pavements. We'll derive the equation from the pavement performance curve, then look at the various additions and modifications over the last 40+ years. The slides are here.

 Tuesday, September 29
Because we're going to cover two topics tonight, I've moved Exam 1 up from next Thursday to next Tuesday. The exam will be open-book, open-note and will cover everything up through tonight's lecture. We'll discuss this more in class tonight.

 Tuesday, September 29
I've posted the slides for tonight's class. According to the schedule, we're supposed to cover Chapter 11.1 (Distress in Asphalt Pavements) tonight. Because there's not a lot to that chapter, I'm also going to cover Chapter 11.3 (Pavement Performance).

 Tuesday, September 22
We'll make up for tonight's cancelled class by meeting next Thursday during our normal class time. We were not scheduled to meet next Thursday because I was supposed to go out of town, but now I'm not leaving until Friday morning so we can meet as scheduled.

 Tuesday, September 22
I've developed a couple of new slides showing typical values of CBR and E for soils.
I've also posted the slides for tonight's lecture on Soil Stabilization.

 Thursday, September 17
I've decided to cover Soil Stabilization (Chapter 7.14 in the textbook) next Tuesday after all. I'll try to post the slides for that lecture sometime on Monday.

 Tuesday, September 15
I've posted the slides for tonight's lecture.
We'll discuss these after we finish the traffic discussion from last time.
I've replaced one of the slides from last time with several new slides.
For next Tuesday, do the homework problems here.

 Thursday, September 10
For next Thursday, do the homework problems here.

 Monday, September 7
I've posted the slides for tomorrow night's lecture. If we don't make it all the way through them tomorrow, we'll finish them on Thursday.

 Thursday, September 3
For next Thursday, do the homework problems here. To complete this assignment, you will need the Excel spreadsheet here, which contains tables for Factors A, B and H in the Ahlvin and Ulery method.

 Wednesday, September 2
I fixed a couple of errors in the slides for tomorrow's class and added some comments.
If you printed out the slides before 6:30 pm today, please download them again.
(You might have to clear your browser's history before you download the new file.)

 Friday, July 31
The meeting location for this class has been changed from ES 308 to ES 114.