The 9th edition of the European FWD User Group Meeting took place at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the 8th and 9th of April 2019.
About 25 people attended the meeting.
Here is the final programme of the 9th European FWD User Group Meeting 2019.
April 8, 2019
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | EU FWD User Group Welcoming Reception, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Franziska-Braun-Straße 3 (L5|06), 64287 Darmstadt (Germany) |
| 7:30 pm | Welcoming Dinner (to be announced, self-funding) |
April 9, 2019
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Welcome and Opening, J. Stefan Bald, Marko Čičković, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | FWD Comparative Measurements at BASt, Dirk Jansen, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Design of Pavement Rehabilitation, Rita Kleizienė, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius (Lithuania) |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | US Experience on Using TSD-based Structural Indices for Network-Level Pavement Management, Gerardo Flintsch, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg (U.S.A.) |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | Extensive Search on how FWD Parameters and Settings Influence “Time-History Data”, Carl Van Geem, Belgian Road Research Centre, Bruxelles / Brussel (Belgium) |
| 11:30 am – 11:45 am | Dynamic Analysis of FWD Data, Marko Čičković, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) |
| 11:45 am – 12:00 pm | Numerical Developments for Flexible and Rigid Pavement HWD Data Analysis, Jean-Marie Roussel, STAC, Bonneuil-sur-Marne (France) |
| 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm | Monitoring of Crack Propagation in Asphalt Pavement during an APT Experiment Using FWD, Mai Lan Nguyen, IFSTTAR, Bouguenais (France) |
| 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | Lunch |
| 1:45 pm – 2:15 pm | Presentation of the website of the European FWD User Group, Carl Van Geem, Belgian Road Research Centre, Bruxelles / Brussel (Belgium) |
| 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm | The use of bearing-capacity and ground-penetration-data for structural assessment, Dirk Jansen, Claudia Podolski, Eiad Ramadan, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) |
| 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm | Non-Destructive Testing of Layer Bonding with the FWD, Marko Čičković, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) |
| 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Dynatest RAPTOR – A Replacement for the FWD?, Jack Larsen, Dynatest International A/S, Søborg (Denmark) |
| 3:45 pm | Wrapup and Discussion, J. Stefan Bald, Marko Čičković, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) |
