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This webinar will present the research findings on the Mountain-Plains Consortium Research Project MPC-407 on drivers and cell phone usage. Two research reports were created during this project: Why Drivers Use Cell Phones and Support Legislation to Restrict This Practice, Report MPC-17-323 Cell...
Asphalt binder used for pavement construction is obtained mainly by the distillation of crude oil in refineries. The scarcity of natural resources, environmental concerns, and emerging needs for sustainable materials have spurred the development and use of materials and processes that are renewable and...
Fiber reinforced concrete has been used in bonded resurfacing overlays and assumed to have improved performance, as well as cost-effective. The benefit of improved toughness by incorporating fibers has proven to reduce cracking, yet other deformation characteristics and the bond interaction to the underlying...
A mechanical bar splice, also known as bar coupler, is an alternative to the traditional lap splicing to connect bars in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Even though mechanical bar splices can be used as new precast column connections to accelerate bridge construction (ABC), the use of bar couplers...
This presentation will cover research conducted by South Dakota State University under the Mountain-Plains Consortium Project 437 and with additional funding from SDDOT. There is little guidance for SDDOT pertaining to the use and testing of FRC. There is also lack of information about new fiber products...
Seismic resilience of bridges improves safety and livability of communities. Successful completion of the project will ensure that the proposed method of constructing bridges will improve seismic resilience of bridges for strong earthquakes thus preserving the existing transportation system. The project...
This presentation is based upon Mountain Plains Consortium Research Project 18-367 – Identification of Fatigue Countermeasures for the Short Line Railroad Industry. However, the results of this research are applicable to all transportation sectors in that fatigue applies to human operators in all modes...
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a mature and efficient technology currently used by various transportation agencies for highway asset management and data collection purposes. While effective, there are some limitations in using LiDAR as a common engineering tool: the technology is expensive, certain...
To mitigate crash severity and reduce crash rate, advanced technologies such as connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have shown great potentials in preventing human-errors in driving. Using real-time data collected via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication platforms...
This presentation will cover research conducted by South Dakota State University under Mountain Plains Consortium research funding. The main objective of this study was to implement a systematic method for evaluating Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) techniques to determine their applicability to...