Overview

HIPAVE (Heavy Industrial PAVEment design) is for the mechanistic analysis and design of flexible pavements subjected to the extremely heavy wheel loads associated with freight handling vehicles in industrial facilities, in particular, intermodal container terminals. It is designed to conveniently model each combination of vehicle model and container load and to combine the damage using the Cumulative Damage Factor concept.

HIPAVE is an outgrowth of CIRCLY and APSDS (Airport Pavement Structural Design System). CIRCLY was first released in 1977 and APSDS in 1995.

HIPAVE has unique features to expedite pavement design projects—

• a standard vehicle library - that can be automatically updated from our webserver;

• ability to define and store container weight distributions;

• automatic calculation of axle loads from vehicle geometry and container weight.

HIPAVE can handle the variety of mobile equipment used in container facilities, such as forklifts, straddle carriers, gantry cranes and side loaders.

Forklift, Mast Lift	Straddle Carriers	Tractor-Trailers, Trucks
Reach Stackers		Rubber Tyred Gantry

HIPAVE takes account of vehicle wander at a more fundamental level than earlier methods. Vehicle wander is the statistical variation of the paths taken by successive vehicle movements relative to lane centrelines. Increased wander reduces pavement damage by different amounts that depend upon pavement thickness.

A Parametric Analysis feature can loop through a range of thicknesses for one or two layers, while simultaneously designing the thickness of another layer. This feature will optimise up to three layers. Combining this with a Cost Analysis feature, allows for fine-tuning of layer thicknesses to minimize construction and maintenance costs.

HIPAVE has many other powerful features, including selection of:

• cross-anisotropic and isotropic material properties;

• fully continuous (rough) or fully frictionless (smooth) layer interfaces;

• a comprehensive range of load types, including vertical, horizontal, torsional, etc.;

• non-uniform surface contact stress distributions; and

• automatic sub-layering of unbound granular materials.

Click here for recorded Demonstrations.

Click here to download the Product Brochure.

Click here to view two conference papers on HIPAVE - how it works and two Case Studies.

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Heavy Duty Industrial Pavement Design Guide - now available!

We are pleased to announce that the Heavy Duty Industrial Pavement Design Guide has just been released.

The Guide has been developed to assist users of the HIPAVE software.  The Guide is a collaborative effort currently involving Leigh Wardle of Mincad Systems, Ian Rickards (Pioneer Road Services Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia), John Lancaster (VicRoads, Australia) and Dr. Susan Tighe (Dept. Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada).

Click here to download the Guide.

Special design system for Airport Pavements

A special design system, APSDS (Airport Pavement Structural Design System) is used for airport pavements. It is based on the CIRCLY system and has been modified to suit the design of airport pavements.  

Click here for a comparison of the features of our three pavement design packages.

Make sure you use appropriate Performance Data

We have recently published a paper that describes why performance data developed for highway pavements is not appropriate for heavy loadings such as airports and container terminals and can lead to grossly under-designed pavements.   For further details see Rodway and Wardle (1998).