The AAPT Annual Meeting
(Updated April 22, 2008)

Upcoming Meeting
Schedule for Upcoming Meeting
Yearly Meeting Info & Future and Past Meetings

Walter J. Emmons Award, presented each year for the best paper presented at the Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions

Upcoming Meeting

The Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) is an organization of about 850 members from around the world. AAPT was first organized with 19 members in 1924. The primary purpose of AAPT is to present and discuss the latest technology related to asphalt materials, mix design and construction specifications and procedures.

The 83rd Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists are scheduled for April 27-30, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There will be about 250 attendees from around the world. They represent suppliers, consultants, contractors, universities, government agencies and other researchers. Their common interest is research into materials and methods on how to build better roads. AAPT Members and Non-Members are welcome to attend.

Each of the sessions include presentations by experts in the field followed by open discussions. The papers and discussions will be published in Volume 76 of the AAPT Journal.

There were 65 paper offers for the March 2006 AAPT Meeting. The Board of Directors developed the technical sessions from these offers.

Announcing two exciting events to be held during the 2008 Annual Meeting!

On-line registration for the 2008 Meeting has closed; you may register at the meeting beginning 4:00 pm on Sunday, April 27, at the Penns Landing Hotel.

http://www.pennslanding.hyatt.com/groupbooking/aspg2008 - For government employees
http://www.pennslanding.hyatt.com/groupbooking/asph2008

See the Full Schedule for the 2008 Meeting

Yearly Meeting Information & Future and Past Meetings

The Annual Meeting of the AAPT is generally held in March at different locations in the United States. The three-day (Monday-Wednesday) annual meeting usually consists of four technical sessions, one symposium session on a topic of interest, and one workshop session. A Government Engineers' Forum is also held on Sunday afternoon prior to the start of the meeting.

Both members and nonmembers are welcome to attend the Annual Meetings and Technical Sessions.

Future Meetings:

The next AAPT Annual Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 27-30, 2008.

  • April 27-30, 2008 (Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • March 16-18, 2009 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Past Meetings:

Schedule for 2008 Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions

Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists
April 27-30, 2008
Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2008

Registration

Government-Industry Forum - Jim Moulthrop
2:00-5:00 pm
"Worldwide State of the Practice on the Use of Tack Coats: A Survey"
Louay Mohammad, Shadi Saadeh, Yan Qi, Joe Button, and Jim Scherocman

Ice Breaker Reception
5:30-7:00 p.m.


MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008

Eighty-Third Annual Business Meeting
8:30-10:00 am
Grand Ballroom ABC
Stephen Brown Presiding

Keynote Addresses:

Minutes of Eighty-Second Meeting - March 12, 2007
Secretary-Treasurer's Report

Review of Office Activities
Changes in Membership
Financial Report
President's Report
Association Activities
Introduction of New Members

Presentation of 2007 Walter J. Emmons Award
Winning Paper
"Linear Viscoelastic Properties of Bituminous Materials: from Binders to Mastics"
By Brice Delaporte, Herve DiBenedetto, Pierre Chavert and Giles Gauthier
Runner-Up
"Nondestructive Measurements of Moisture Transport in Asphalt Mixtures"
By Eyad Masad, Edith Arambula, Richard Ketchum, Ala Abbas and Amy Epps-Martin

2007 Scholarship Winners

Old Business
New Business
Report of Tellers
Ballots for Officers and Directors for 2008
Adjournment


Workshop Session

10:15-12:00 PM
Session I - Jim Moulthrop

"Development of a Laboratory Procedure to Evaluate the Influence of Aggregate Type and Mixture Proportions on the Frictional Characteristics of Flexible Pavements"
Karol Kowalski, Rebecca McDaniel, and Jan Olek

"Dry and Soaked Laboratory Tests for Foamed Asphalt Mixes"
Pengcheng Fu, David Jones, John Harvey, and Syed Bukhari

"A Modified Direct Tension Test (DTT) for Bituminous Crack Sealant Characterization at Low Temperature"
Shih-Hsien Yang and Imad Al-Qadi


1:30-5:00 PM
Session II - Rita Leahy

"Evaluation of Construction Techniques for Longitudinal Joints in HMA Pavements"
Peter Sebaaly

"Relationships Between Laboratory Measured Characteristics Of Hma And Field Compactability"
Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta and Randy West

"Layer Characteristics Affecting Interlayer Shear Resistance in Flexible Pavements"
Felice Santagata, Manfred Partl, Gilda Ferrotti, Francesco Canestrari, and Alexander Flisch

"Influence of Field Compaction Pattern on Pavement Uniformity"
Emad Kassem, Eyad Masad, Arif Chowdhury, and German Claros

"Evaluation of Superpave Construction Quality on Low Volume Roads"
Scott Schram and Magdy Abdelrahman

(FOR PUBLICATION ONLY)
"A Laboratory Investigation of Temperature Profiles and Thermal Properties of Asphalt Pavements with Different Subsurface Layers"
Bao-Liang Chen, Laura Rockett, and Rajib Mallick


TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008

8:30-12:00 PM
Session III - Frank Fee

"Properties of Fillers: Relationship with Performance in Hot Mix Asphalt"
Stefan Vansteenkiste and Ann Vanelstraete

"Conventional and Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) based Fatigue Analysis of Polymer Modified Asphalt Pavements"
Muhammed Kutay, Nelson Gibson, and Jack Youtcheff

"Determination of Moisture Susceptibility of Mastic-Stone Bond Strength and Comparison to Thermodynamical Properties"
Niki Kringos, Tom Scarpas and Adrian de Bondt

"Deformation Characterisation of Asphalt Concrete Behaviour"
James Grenfell, Andrew Collop, Gordon Airey, Hasan Taherkhani, and Tom Scarpas

"Investigation of Cracking Behavior of Antioxidant-Modified Asphalt Mixtures"
Alex Apeagyei, William Buttlar, and Barry Dempsey


1:30-5:00 PM
Symposium Session - Implementation of the New Mechanistic-Empirical Design Guide - Ramon Bonaquist

There will be a number of presentations including the paper below which was accepted through the peer review process.

"Using permanent deformation tests and the MEPDG to quantify permanent deformation improvements from modified binders"
Adrian Archilla, Letizia de Lannoy, and Luis Diaz


6:00-7:00 PM
Social Hour Before Banquet (Sponsored)

7:00-9:00 PM
Banquet

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008

8:30-12:00 PM
Session IV - Rey Roque

"The Truth and Myth of Fatigue Cracking Potential in Hot-Mix Asphalt: Numerical Analysis and Validation"
Pyeong Jun Yoo and Imad Al-Qadi

"Calibration of Mechanistic-Empirical Models for Flexible Pavements Using the WesTrack Experiment"
Per Ullidtz, John Harvey, Bor-Wen Tsai, and Carl Monismith

"Integration of Thermal Fracture in the HMA Fracture Model"
Jaeseung Kim, Reynaldo Roque, and Bjorn Birgisson

"Consideration of HMA Resilient Modulus (Mr) for M-E Pavement Design and Analysis"
Sheng Hu, Fujie Zhou, Xiaodi Hu, Tom Scullion, Xicheng Qi, Lubinda Walubita, and German Claros

"Effect of Cooling Rate on Thermal Cracking of Asphalt Concrete Pavements"
Alex Apeagyei, Eshan Dave, and William Buttlar

(FOR PUBLICATION ONLY)
"Frequency Determination from Vehicular Loading Time Pulse to Predict Appropriate Complex Modulus in MEPDG"
Imad Al-Qadi, Wei Xie, and Mostafa Elseifi


1:30-5:00 PM
Session V - Mike Anderson

"Laboratory Investigation of Acetate-based Deicing/anti-icing Agents Deteriorating Airfield Asphalt Concrete"
Tongyan Pan, Xiaodong He, and Xianming Shi

"Physical Aging in Semi-Crystalline Asphalt Binders"
Pavel Kriz, Jiri Stastna, and Ludo Zanzotto

"Interfacial Fracture Energy: An Indicator of the Adhesion of Bituminous Materials"
Elham Fini, Imad Al-Qadi, and Jean-Francois Masson

"Experimental Investigation on the Fatigue Damage Behaviour of Modified Bituminous Binders and Mastics"
Ezio Santagata, Orazio Baglieri, and Davide Dalmazzo

"Effect of Mineral Filler on Damage Resistance Characteristics of Asphalt Binders"
Ahmed Faheem, Haifang Wen, Lawrence Stephene, and Hussain Bahia

(FOR PUBLICATION ONLY)
"A New Unified High Temperature PG-Grading Equation"
Jung Huh and Tae Jung