About the conference
In view of the high international interest in design and construction of sustainable pavement systems, the AM3P conference offers a unique international forum for exchange of ideas on various approaches to predict pavement performance. It will promote linkages and interactions between material characterization methods, mechanistic modeling, and empirical predictions. The conference will emphasize comparisons between modeling results and observed performance.
The topics of the conference include experimental laboratory material characterization, field measurements and in-situ material characterization, constitutive modeling and simulation, empirical predictions, statistically sound calibration and validation methods, innovative pavement materials and interface systems, non-destructive measurement techniques, surface characterization, tire-surface interaction, pavement noise, pavement rehabilitation and case studies.
San Antonio is chosen as the venue because it is central to Texas expansive roadway infrastructure and easily accessible from within the United States and Internationally. San Antonio is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country with over 31 million visitors per year. The 2020 AM3P conference hotel is right on the Riverwalk providing easy access to historical landmarks and a multitude of dinning/entertainment opportunities.
THEME TOPIC LEAD
11 Modeling, performance prediction and design of rigid pavements Lev Khazanovich
21 Characterizing unbound aggregates for pavement design and performance prediction Erol Tutumluer
22 Modeling the performance of chemically and mechanically stabilized pavement foundations Erol Tutumluer
31 Functional pavement characteristics and vehicle-pavement interaction Karim Chatti
32 Monitoring and modeling techniques to predict performance of existing pavement structures Karim Chatti, Emin Kutay
33 Advances and Evaluation of Pavement Analysis and Design Methodologies Elie Hajj and Ghassan Chehab
41 Materials testing and performance modeling: calibration, verification, and validation Yong-Rak Kim and Eshan Dave
42 Research needs for design, modeling, and performance prediction of recycled and green materials Zhen Leng and Rajib Mallick
43 Innovations for assessing vulnerability to, or impacts of climate change and climate adaptation
technologies Theuns Henning and Baoshan Huang
45 Multi-scale and multi-physics methods for performance prediction of paving materials Shane Underwood and Yong-Rak Kim
51 Assessing variability and uncertainty in the characterization, analysis or design of road materials
and pavement structures Silvia Caro
52 Coupling mechanistic properties and probabilistic approaches to guide quality assurance practices Katherine Petros
53 Big data techniques for pavement performance prediction Wynand Steyn
61 Chemo-mechanical tools for performance based design of binders Mike Greenfield, Amit Bhasin, Katerina Varveri
62 Genome based approaches to design asphalt mixtures Linbing Wang
70 Others Others