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AAPA endorses fatigue endurance limits AUSTROADS guidelines

The Australian Asphalt Pavement Association (AAPA) has endorsed the new concept of a fatigue endurance limit to determine the full depth asphalt pavement thickness in a freeway environment. The endorsement came from the first meeting of the AAPA’s recently appointed National Leadership and Technology Committee (NTLC) made up of senior managers in the pavement and surface technology sector. The NTLC endorsed the industry-prepared draft design guide addendum for Perpetual Pavements from AUSTROADS. AUSTR
May 18, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
The Australian Asphalt Pavement Association (AAPA) has endorsed the new concept of a fatigue endurance limit to determine the full depth asphalt pavement thickness in a freeway environment.

The endorsement came from the first meeting of the AAPA’s recently appointed National Leadership and Technology Committee (NTLC) made up of senior managers in the pavement and surface technology sector. The NTLC endorsed the industry-prepared draft design guide addendum for Perpetual Pavements from AUSTROADS.

AUSTROADS - the Association of Australasian Road Transport and Traffic Agencies -- provides technical input into national road and transport policies and helps road agencies in Australia and New Zealand to operate more efficiently. AUSTROADS members collectively manage more than 900,000km roads valued at more than US$158 billion. Each year in excess of $14.25 billion is spent on roads across Australia and New Zealand.

The NTLC’s role is to elevate the status of flexible pavement practical research and be a reference group for advances in materials technology, plant and equipment advances and design process evolution.

NTLC members include chairman Rob McGuire, general manager for asphalt at Boral Construction Materials and who has 26 years in the sector. Also on the committee is another Boral employee, Trevor Distin, asphalt technology manager at Boral Shared Business Services.

Other members include Bevan Sullivan, national technical manager at 6191 Fulton Hogan and Richard Fulton, in charge of airports at Fulton Hogan. Warren Carter, technical manager at 2679 Downer EDi Works, is on the committee, as is Azeem Remtulla who is general manager for SAMI Bitumen Technologies Group, Ricky Nugent, general manager at 184 COLAS West Australia, Nigel Preston, bitumen technical director at Viva Energy Australia and Stuart Dack, marketing and product development manager for 5511 BP’s bitumen business.

The Australian Asphalt Pavement Association’s 2015 International Flexible Pavements Conference will be held from 13-15 September in the coastal town of Broadbeach, south of Brisbane on Australia’s Gold Coast in Queensland state.

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