DESIGNPAVE

CMAA’s DesignPave program has been developed in collaboration with the University of South Australia
to design and analyse of concrete segmental pavements (CBP).
It is a successor to CMAA’s longstanding LockPave program which was first launched in the 1990’s
and for over two decades LockPave has proven its worth as a tool to assist designers with their
concrete segmental pavements designs.
DesignPave incorporates a simplified interface to intuitively guide users through the pavement
design process.
It employs the Method of Equivalent Thickness methodology to compute the most
appropriate design for the identified pavement loading and soil conditions.
The program can be used for both residential and industrial pavement applications.

Features of DesignPave
• Integrated help files to guide users through the
pavement design process
• Design charts are generated to visually analyse
the thickness design
• Ability to save and resume the project
• Cost analysis
• Professional report generation
• Analyse existing pavement structures for stability
• Flexibility to select and compare between various
design methods (Industrial option only)
• Flexibility to compare between various
pavements layers to efficiently determine the
most economical option for the project
• Save project time- DesignPave will compute the
most appropriate design for your CBP!

Program Overview

DesignPave Road Design

Options after entering
designer details:

Last saved project Subgrade material properties

Getting started: Road design options and estimated ESA load
Designer details Open existing project Estimating number of design
traffic or ESA from AADT
Create new project
ESA (Calculated from AADT)
Design traffic based off actual
Getting started: traffic spectrum survey
Client details
Select layer system Thickness design for a base course
only layer system
Thickness design for a base course
Select Design or Analysis and sub-base layer system
Thickness design for a base course
and stabilised sub-base layer system
A design chart is automatically
Cost analysis generated after the appropriate
Design Analysis thickness design has been computed.

Road
Report generation
Industrial
 Industrial Features Overview

Compute the critical container Help files

Select industrial loading load
Subgrade material properties DesignPave has a range of integrated help files
Vehicle category personalised for each page of the program.
Front lift truck (FLT) Each help file details the step-by-step requirements
Side lift truck (SLT) for the page, helpful specifications (such as material
Rubber tyre gantry
properties) and where applicable – theories used for the
Straddle carrier (SC)
Vehicle load and calculations.
Reach stacker (RS)
configuration
Custom
Loading conditions
Any vehicle not listed above

DesignPave allows users to define their own material

Braking dynamic factor (%) properties and loading conditions.
Cornering dynamic factor (%) For residential applications, users can define an
Select dynamic factors
Acceleration dynamic factor (%)
approximate Estimated Standard Axle (ESA) or allow the
Uneven surface dynamic factor (%) program to compute it from an actual traffic spectrum
survey.
Miner’s rule
Select calculation method For industrial applications, users are required to define
Single Equivalent
the loads and configurations of common and/or custom
British port method (Knapton, 2012)
industrial vehicles. Users are also able to factor dynamic
loading conditions including breaking, cornering,
Thickness design for a base course acceleration and uneven surfaces.
Select layer system only layer system
Thickness design for a base course
DesignPave then automatically computes the axle loads
and sub-base layer system based off the identified vehicle geometry and container
Thickness design for a base course weight.
Cost analysis and stabilised sub-base layer system
This is only applicable to the
Miner’s rule and SEWL design
methods. British ports is only
Report generation applicable to stabilised base course
and an unbound sub-base system.

Layer system
Users are flexibly able to select from and experiment
between three pavement layer systems. DesignPave
recommends which option is most suitable based on the
inputted ESA and subgrade CBR values.
Thickness calculations
Based off the specified material characteristics and anticipated loading
conditions, DesignPave computes the most appropriate design thickness using
the Method of Equivalent Thickness (MET). The MET converts a multi-layer
system into a single homogenous layer where all the layers have the same
modulus.
For an industrial pavement, DesignPave allows further customisation by
allowing the user to select from three different design methodologies, each
appropriate for differing base course materials. The design methodologies
include:
• Miner’s rule (industry recommended method) – Using
Miner’s rule, the total estimated design traffic over the
pavement’s service life is distributed according to the inputted
traffic survey data.
• Single equivalent wheel load (SEWL) method – The SEWL
method converts all individual wheel loads into an equivalent
wheel load to calculate the damage fraction of the pavement.
• British ports method – Designs using Knapton’s method are
based on a design chart for a standard cement bound granular
material (CBGM) with a tensile strength of 1.18 N/mm2. The
thickness of the base course will be dependent on the total
equivalent number of repetitions and maximum wheel load.

Design charts
A design chart is automatically generated for each design which
visually establishes the calculated pavement design thickness over
varying traffic loading repetitions.

Design Analysis
DesignPave has an integrated analysis feature which computes
the elastic modulus based off the known loading conditions and
pavement design thickness.
Users are also prompted to input the intended layer strength.
DesignPave then back-calculates the required modulus and notifies the
user if their pavement is unsuitable for their application.

Cost Analysis
DesignPave incorporates a feature to compute the estimated total cost of the
project based off the intended pavement design thickness.
This allows users to compare between the different layer systems to determine
the most economical design option for the project.

Report generation
DesignPave automatically generates a professional CMAA report after
finalising each design.
Before generation, users are able to select which elements they would like
to be shown on the report. This includes client and designer details, design
methodology and the pavement design thickness which has been determined
by the program.

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