CIRCLY 7.0 - Review of Pavement Design using Mechanistic Analysis

• Trace how pavement design evolved from empirical charts to mechanistic–empirical methods
• Show where CIRCLY fits into the Austroads framework and state supplements.
• The user interface and main icons
• How CIRCLY stores information using a relational database
• Setting up jobs from existing components
• Creating and modifying materials and layered systems
• Using Austroads 2017 Pavement Design within CIRCLY
• And navigating some of the graphics and result plots you’ll use every day.
• Cost optimisation with parametric analysis
• How to incorporate material costs and carbon factors
• Managing and importing Traffic Load Distributions, or TLDs
• Using mechanistic methods for lightly trafficked roads
• A set of rehabilitation examples: foamed bitumen, lime-stabilised subgrades, cemented and modified granular layers, and asphalt inlays.
• Airports – large commercial aircraft and military aircraft
• Heavy industrial pavements – container terminals, ports, heavy plant yards
• Specialised design tools in the CIRCLY family:
  
  • Airport pavements using APSDS
  • Heavy industrial pavements using HiPAVE
• And we’ll introduce haul road design for large mine trucks inside CIRCLY itself.

Across four modules, we’re going to take real-world constraints; traffic, materials, subgrade, and turn them into pavement designs you can defend, and you should anticipate approximately one and a half hours of your time to complete each module. You’ll see how CIRCLY converts those inputs into layer strains, stresses and Cumulative Damage Factors or “CDFs” - and how we use parametrics to make the trade-offs visible instead of debatable.