Book Description

Mn/DOT research has indicated that intelligent compaction (IC) will improve construction quality and efficiencies for the Contractors and Mn/DOT field staff. Experience thus far has illustrated that quality control, quality assurance and research activities were problematic using the software provided by the roller manufacturers. The manufacturers’ software is proprietary, expensive, subject to change, and generally did not provide the functionality required by Mn/DOT. Hence, the Department chose to develop software and processes fitting their specific needs. The work included: 1. Development of database structures for managing and archiving IC data 2. Software to import and validate IC data, populate the database and write geographic information system (GIS) shapefiles 3. Processes and tools to manage, display and evaluate IC data within ArcInfo GIS software. The end product of this research is equally suited to compaction of both unbound and bound materials used to construct the entire flexible pavement structure. This final report describes the target functionality, terminology, geodatabase structure, import and filtering software and ArcInfo geographic information system (GIS) platform processes.