Heavy Duty Industrial Pavement Design Guide - now available!

 HIPAVE

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.

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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 Dr. 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).

The Guide presents the author’s attempts to reflect best practice in the design of new construction and rehabilitation of industrial pavements.  The Guide steers the designer through all necessary design considerations and suggests external sources for research updates.  It is intended to be supplementary to other published design guides with a focus on industrial pavements. 

The Guide is a ‘living document’ that will be regularly updated to reflect advances in pavement technology and made freely available via the Internet at no charge. 

Click here to download the Guide.  (Download the file Heavy_Duty_Pavement_Design_Guide.pdf)

Contact us if you would like to be notified when the Guide is updated.  (Not required if you already receive email from us.)


Forklift, Mast Lift
Straddle Carriers
Tractor-Trailers, Trucks


Reach Stackers
Rubber Tyred Gantry

Heavy Duty Pavement Design Workshops

We are running a Heavy Duty Pavement Design Workshop in Perth on Friday, 14 September 2007.
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Click here to register your details if you are interested in attending a Workshop and would like to be notified when further details are available.
Registration forms and other details will be available approximately 4 weeks prior to each course.

Conference Papers

We have recently published three papers that outline the design philosophy of the Guide:

Wardle , L., Rickards, I. and Lancaster, J. (2006). HIPAVE - A Tool To Assist In The Mechanistic Empirical Design Of Heavy Duty Industrial Flexible Pavements. 10th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), Quebec, Canada, August. 12-17.

Acrobat version of paper

Wardle, L. J., Rickards, I. and Hudson, K. (2005). HIPAVE – A Mechanistic Design Tool for Heavy-Duty Industrial Pavements.  Proc. AAPA Pavements Industry Conf., Surfers Paradise, Australia. 

Acrobat version of paper

Wardle, L. J. and Oldfield, D. (2005). HIPAVE – A Mechanistic Design Tool for Flexible Port Pavements. Proc. 2005 Coasts and Ports Australasian Conference, Adelaide, South Australia 21-23 September 2005.

Acrobat version of paper

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).

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