COST 347 Pavement Research with Accelerated Loading Testing Facilities Public Information Page

WELCOME

Here you will find updated public information about COST 347. This is the place to look for the latest news about and from COST 347 including our newsletter, material about past and upcoming events, and finalised reports. This is also the place where you will be able to see how COST 347 is organised and how we are making progress. Finally, this is also the place search if you want to contact members of COST 347.

I hope you will find this page, as well as the wealth of additional information about accelerated pavement load testing, interesting and of use in your work. If you have comments to the material on these pages, please contact me or our webmaster (Mr. Andrew Dawson).

Gregers Hildebrand
Chairman of COST 347

This is the public information page for the COST 347 Action.

The main objective of the Action is to develop a European code of good practice to optimise the use of Accelerated Load Testing facilities and improve the application of results from these facilities. The common code of good practice will improve the efficiency and quality of ALT use in Europe, and research results will become available and useable on a broad basis to the benefit of owners of ALT facilities as well as non-owner organisations.

This page provides links to the following pages. If there is no coloured link, that's because there is, at present, no available information:

Newsletter Autumn 2001
Newsletter Spring 2002
Newsletter Summer 2002
Newsletter Autumn 2002
Newsletter Spring 2003
Newsletter Spring 2004
Newsletter Summer 2004
Newsletter Autumn 2004
Presentations from the opening seminar (held in Köln, 27th June, 2001)
Presentation by Prof. Alex Visser (made to the Action's Management Committee in March 2004) on the Benefits of the South African Heavy Vehicle Simulator Programme.
Presentation about COST347 (made at the 81st Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington, DC, USA in January 2002)
Presentations about the outputs of COST347 (made at the 2nd FEHRL Road Research Meeting in Brussels in June 2004)
Published reports (see Work Package status and Short Term Scientific Missions below)
How the COST 347 project is organised
The work packages
The Technical Annex which defines the work of the Action
Participants in COST 347 (& their web-sites)
Progress of work by Work Package

WP 1 Status - Final Report
WP 2 Status - Literature Database and the Final Report
WP 3 Status - Final Report
WP 4 Status - Final Report
WP 5 Status - Final Report
WP 6 Status - no reports made as this WP had responsibility for dissemination only.

Reports on Short-term Scientific Missions performed by members of the Action

Mission 1 - Comparison of ALT-Signals of Different Strain Gauges - Summary Report
Mission 1 - Comparison of ALT-Signals of Different Strain Gauges - Full Report
Mission 2 - Analytical Pavement Response Modelling With Multilayer Programs - Summary Report
Mission 2 - Analytical Pavement Response Modelling With Multilayer Programs - Full Report
Mission 3 - Pavement modelling using viscoelastic Program - Report
Missions 4 & 5 - Laboratory Testing of Strain Gauges - Summary Report
Missions 4 & 5 - Laboratory Testing of Strain Gauges - Full Report
Mission 6 - Analyses of strain data from ALT - Full Report
Mission 7 - Parameter studies according to loading situations of heavy vehicle overruns - Full Report

COST 347 Reference Page with reference data provided by the COST Secretariat.
Pave-Test Pages An information site giving a brief description of ALT and providing links to many of the users of Accelerated Load Testing of Pavements.

There is a useful report published by the US Transportation Research Board entitled "Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing - A Synthesis of Highway Practice" (NCHRP SYNTHESIS 325) which you can download.

You can join an e-mail list and receive e-mail messages concerned with ALT - Click Here to send a request to join.

There is also a members page for the participants in the Action which holds day-to-day information (which can only be accessed with the appropriate password).

This page is maintained by Andrew Dawson. If you experience any difficulties reading this page please let me know. This page was last updated on 6/4/05.