FHWA Resource Center
STRUCTURES TEAM
Subject:
Next PCEF Meeting September 3, 2003Frederick, Maryland Date: August 11,
2003
From: High Performance Structural Materials SpecialistNational Resource
Center -- BaltimoreBaltimore, Maryland Reply To Attn of: RC-BALT
To: Prestressed Concrete Committee for Economic FabricationPCEF MembersMid-Atlantic
States
Attached is a copy of the agenda for the subject meeting, which will be
held on Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, at the
Maryland State Highway Administration’s (SHA) District 7 Office
(Training Room 2), located at 5111 Buckeystown Pike, Buckeystown, Maryland.
Directions to the District Office are attached. The training room is located
in the first building on the right, upon proceeding straight through the
entrance to the parking lot. Any questions about office location may be
directed to Susan Hose, at (301) 624-8104.
Two hotels are located in the
same general vicinity of the District Office. One is the Hampton Inn,
located on the same road, and within walking distance of the SHA District
Office. Reservations may be made by calling (301) 698-2500, for a single
room rate of $75 plus tax. Another lodging possibility is the Fairfield
Inn, located across from the Hampton Inn at 5220 West View Drive. Reservations
may be made there by calling (301) 631-2000, for a single room rate of
$65 plus tax.
This notice will be posted
on the FHWA Resource Center’s website
under the heading, PCEF Committee Meetings, which is located within the
link to “High Performance Materials.” All PCEF members with
an Internet address will receive these materials electronically. Hard
copies will not be mailed to these individuals. Those members without
an Internet address who have an “**” next to their name will
receive a fax of the materials. All recipients of these materials and
are requested to make the information available as soon as possible to
other non-Internet members on the PCEF list.
If there are any problems with receiving the documents either electronically
or by fax, please notify Mr. Melvin Harris at (410) 962-2773. Members
are requested to review their previous copies of Subcommittee listings
and consider representation by their state or company as appropriate.
The attached agenda is supplemented as follows:
Status Reports on Implementation
of PCEF Bulb-T’s and Use of HPC
A representative from each
State DOT is asked to provide a status report on these two items, covering
the period since the last PCEF meeting (February 13, 2003).
Standardization Subcommittee
Per the minutes of the last
meeting, the Design Parameters Subcommittee is being combined with this
group, in order to address issues covered at previous meetings. We would
like to welcome Mr. Troy Jenkins of Schuykill Products, Inc., to the PCEF.
He will be picking up the effort from the precast industry’s viewpoint
on how regional uniformity can be achieved with such prestressed concrete
design parameters as strand pattern types; maximum amount of debonding;
strand sizes; maximum allowable tensile stress; use of diaphragms; use
of projecting reinforcement. In conjunction with this effort, results
of the attached survey will be presented from the State DOT’s viewpoint.
An overhead projector will be made available if needed by any presenters.
Speakers anticipating making an electronic presentation are requested
to either supply us with a CD of their presentation in advance of the
meeting for loading onto a laptop computer, or to bring their own laptop
with the presentation. We will supply an In-Focus projector. All speakers
are asked to provide paper copies of their talks, and are asked to notify
us as soon as possible of their equipment needs
We look forward to another
successful turnout and to the active participation of all attendees at
the meeting.
Original signed by,
Attachments Louis N. Triandafilou
September 3, 2003 Mid-Atlantic States PCEF Meeting: 9:00 am - 3:00
pm
Maryland State Highway Administration,
District 7 (Training Room 2) - Buckeystown, Maryland
AGENDA
1. Introductions at 9:00 am
2. Approval of Minutes from
February 13, 2003 Meeting in Charleston, WV
3. Update on MDSHA’s
Field Survey of Delayed Ettringite Formation-
Dr. Richard Livingston, FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Ctr.
(30 minutes)
4. Status Report by Each State
DOT on Implementation of PCEF Bulb-T Shapes and Implementation of HPC
(60 minutes)
5. Break (15 Minutes)
6. Virginia DOT’s Study
of Self-Consolidating Concrete -
Dr. Celik Ozyildirim (Invited), Virginia Transportation Research Council
(30 minutes)
7. Materials, QC/QA, Construction
and Production Subcommittee Update --
Paul Finnerty, MDSHA and Bob Horwhat, PADOT (30 Minutes)
8. Lunch (1 Hour)
9. NCHRP Study on Splicing
Haunched Girders -
Reid Castrodale (Invited), Ralph Whitehead Associates, Inc. (30Minutes)
10. Design Parameters and Standardization
Subcommittee Update (60 Minutes)
--Status Report on Precaster
Issues - Troy Jenkins, Schuykill Products, Inc.
--Results of State DOT Design Considerations Questionnaire -
John Martin, Virginia DOT
and Claude Napier, FHWA Virginia
11. Other Issues & Adjourn by 3:00 PM
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