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Designing Field Compaction Seminar

The ASCE Dallas Branch and CIGMAT will sponsor, “Advances in Designing Field Compaction: M-D Relations”, with speaker, Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The University of Houston.  The event will take place on Friday, March 25th from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at HNTB (2nd Floor Conference Room), 5910 West Plano Parkway, Suite 200, Plano TX 75093.

Seating is Limited - Early Registration is recommended.
Lunch is included with Advance Registration.
Lunch may be provided if available with "at the door registration".
Earn 3 PDH Credits by attending the entire seminar.

AGENDA

10:30 – 11:00 Registration

11:00 – 12:00 Compaction Control Advances

12:00 – 12:15 Break and Lunch

12:15 – 12:45 Const. Industry Rep (TBD) – Compaction problems in the field

12:45 – 1:15 Equipment Rep (TBD) – Advances in compaction equipment

1:15 – 1:30 Break

1:30 – 2:30 Compaction Control Software Rep (TBD) – Available software

2:30 – 3:00 Open Discussion

Why Compaction?

Since the early 1930’s, use of compacted soils (three phase materials) for embankments, pavement subgrades, earthen dam construction, and retaining wall backfills has seen tremendous growth. Hence the ability to effectively utilize and combine advances in compaction control to meet the loading requirements on compacted soils is ever more critical.  High quality civil infrastructure requires better performance and lower maintenance costs. Technological advances in the areas of compaction, monitoring, and pre-compaction control information can be effectively combined to meet the specifications in the field productively with full engineering and construction control.

The presentation will focus on issues related to compaction of soils using modern compactors, limitation of some of the current practices and advances in knowing compaction performance, moisture-density (M-D) states, and engineering properties before soil conditioning or compaction is done.  Also methods to design compaction (selection of compactor based on the available soil) to meet the field requirements will be discussed.

For more information on this seminar, please contact Larry Goldberg  [email protected], (832) 456-6200 Ext. 307

For questions on the online registration & payment process, please contact Sean P. Merrell [email protected] (214) 998-4330.