Technical Committee on Constitutive Modelling of Asphaltic Materials -events

From the International Course Series on Advanced Constitutive Modeling of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials:

a new course shall be given at Texas A&M University, USA, on 21-25 September 2009 on the topic of ADVANCED CONSTITUTIVE MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ASPHALTIC MATERIALS

Modern computational techniques, such as the finite element method, demand sophisticated constitutive models for realistic model-based simulations. In modern mechanics literature and in most commercially available finite element software packages, an abundance of constitutive models is encountered. Unfortunately, quite often, the mathematical formulation of these models can be quite forbidding for the uninitiated user. Advanced material models also require state-of-the-art characterization techniques which capture the three-dimensional and multi-scale material response.

The course aims at engineers, scientists, and researchers who want to familiarize themselves with the mathematics, computational methods and characterization techniques associated with constitutive modeling of asphaltic materials. This is of paramount importance for the pavement design community as it moves to mechanistic-empirical and, ultimately, fully mechanistic pavement modeling.

In the course, a team of international experts shall explain the mathematical fundamentals and state-of-the-art material characterization techniques of asphaltic materials. The course includes hands-on laboratory sessions.

Find out more about the course or registration HERE.

This event is sponsored by the ISAP TC

International Workshop on Asphalt Binders and Mastics
Models and Methods to Characterize Rheological Properties and Damage of Binders and Mastics

September 16-17, 2010, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

MORE INFO can be found here or download the summarizing presentation presented at the 2011 annual TC meeting!