Geotechnical Engineering Research

Pavement Engineering Materials Testing

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Geotechnical Components of DB projects

Complex Geotech projects ◦ Landslides ◦ Remote drilling ◦ Instrumentation

Specialized pavement and materials performance evaluations ◦ Robotex, Petrography

MnROAD ◦ Design, planning, ◦ construction inspection

Materials testing ◦ Concrete testing including permeability,

petrographics, linear traverse ◦ Asphalt and base material testing

relating to new technologies

Training, Specifications, Manuals

Contract preparation and

administration

Dispute Resolution (Expert Witness)

Geotechnical Engineering ◦ Design Build (http://www.dot.state.mn.us/designbuild/) TH 610 TH 2 Crookston Landslide I-35W/4th St. Ramp TH 94 Dist 3

Research ◦ Implementation of Step

Frequency GPR Asphalt density, thickness Concrete voids, other defects

◦ Solid State Phosphorus-31

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance testing on extracted binder samples - RFP ◦ MnROAD

Pavement Engineering ◦ Specialized Concrete Testing ◦ Software development ◦ Assistance implementing new

technologies

Communication Budgeting Timeliness QA/QC