Implementation of Concrete Pavement Preservation and PCC Surface Characteristics: Tire Pavement Noise Program

Principal Investigator:

Paul Wiegand, pwiegand@iastate.edu (other projects)

Co-Principal Investigator:

• Dale Harrington (other projects)
• Tom Cackler, tcackler@iastate.edu (other projects)
• Theodore Ferragut (other projects)

Project Status: In Progress

Start Date: 01/29/2007
End Date: 01/28/2011


Research Objective: This project will fully implement the PCC Surface Characteristics program by continuing comprehensive data collection on new and existing pavements started in 2005 under the Type 1 and Type 2 experiments through 2009 for time and history data; analyzing the data to identify clear relationships between texture, noise, friction, etc.; developing and evaluating construction specifications of conventional texture techniques including grinding; and developing and evaluating innovative construction techniques that have the potential to significantly reduce noise.

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