SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BEST PRACTICES FOR CONCRETE PAVEMENTS - Key-Speakers SEGUNDA CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE AS MELHORES PRÁTICAS PARA PAVIMENTOS DE CONCRETO Conferencistas Internacionais Florianópolis, 2 a 4 de novembro de 2011 – em conjunto com o 53º. Congresso Brasileiro do Concreto (coordenadores: Prof. José Tadeu Balbo e Profa. Tatiana Cureau Cervo) CLIQUE HERE TO SEE THE COMPLETE PROGRAM DAVID R. BRILL, Ph.D., P.E. Program Manager, Airport Pavement Technology Federal Aviation Administration "Review of 10 Years of Concrete Airport Pavement Studies at the NAPTF and next 10 Year Plan" Concrete Failure Model Studies: Historical background of the rigid pavement failure model in FAA design, One- and Two-Stage Failure Models, Concept of "Three-Stage" failure; Field Studies: Understanding "Total Stress" the true killer of rigid pavements, Rigid Pavement Curling Studies, Field Instrumentation Research at Denver, Atlanta and JFK; Plan for Next 10 Years: Extending Pavement Life to 40 Years; Looking Ahead for FAA PAVEAIR Dr.Ing. BERNHARD LECHNER Institute for Road, Railway and Airfield Construction Technische Universität München "Railway Concrete Pavements" Concrete pavements fulfill all ballastless track requirements; Successful CRCP installations since 4 decades for high speed lines; Design loads and design procedures; Cross-section design; "Special" rail requirements; Actual work on European and national standardization; Lessons learned; Needs for optimization and new approaches using jointed pavements (also plain concrete pavements); Rail engineers need additional road competences! SHIRAZ TAYABJI, Ph.D., P.E. Fugro Consultants, INC. - Columbia "Sustainability of Concrete Pavement Construction and Maintenance" Sustainability applications to concrete pavements; sustainable concrete pavement designs; sustainable concrete paving materials; sustainable concrete paving mixtures; sustainable construction considerations; assessment of sustainable strategies LEV KHAZANOVICH, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor - University of Minnesota "Dowel and Tie Bars and Pavement Performance" Why do we need dowels and tie bars?; effect of dowel bars on stresses and deflections; design and pavement performance prediction; placement and alignment tolerances; non-destructive evaluation of dowel and tie bar placement; evaluation of the effect of dowel and tie bar misplacement on long-term performance; dowel bar retrofitting and tie bar cross-stitching JAMSHID ARMAGHANI, Ph.D., P.E. Global Sustainable Solutions - Florida "Pervious Concrete for Sustainable Communities" Basic concepts and application; materials and mixtures; pavement design for streets and parking areas; construction techniques; quality control; sustainable characteristics; performance; maintenance. Click here to see the complete program.