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35 Years of the Fatigue Carousel — LAMES / Ifsttar 2013
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Fatigue carousel — History

35 years 17–18 October 2013 Nantes LAMES

Full programme of the scientific symposium held to celebrate 35 years of the fatigue carousel — talks, presentations and future perspectives.

Symposium programme

Day 1 — Thursday 17 October 2013
Welcome & Opening
Henri Van Damme — Scientific Director of Ifsttar (2013)
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Presentation of LAMES
Pierre Hornych — Director of LAMES (2013)
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1Origins of the facility and retrospective
From the AASHO road test to the fatigue carousel
Pierre Hornych, based on the text by Jean Berthier
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35 years of the carousel: installation and summary of its use
Jean-Pierre Kerzrého
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Experiments with Eiffage
Bernard Héritier
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Alternative materials and innovative pavements with Jean Lefèvre and Eurovia
Michel Mazé
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Experience with cold-mix techniques — COLAS and SCREG
Bernard Mahé and François Chaignon
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2Contributions of the carousel to pavement modelling and design
Contribution to the development of the French pavement design method
Rolf Kobisch
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Experiments on the fatigue of bituminous materials
Hugues Odéon
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Experiments on rutting of low-traffic pavements
Absamad El Abd
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Use of the carousel to build a fatigue model for pavements under multi-axle loading
Denys Breysse
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Day 2 — Friday 18 October 2013
3The carousel in all its dimensions
The carousel's place in the world — OECD experience, FORCE 1989 project
André-Gilles Dumont
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Once upon a time, the durability of innovative products: from EME to BB, BmP, BBTM…
Yves Brosseaud
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Heavy-traffic evaluation of ground-level power supply systems (APS) for trams — ALSTOM tests
Olivier Chantal
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Instrumentation in the upper layers of pavements: new findings
Damien Grellet — PhD thesis, Université Laval
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Summary
Jean-Michel Piau
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4Major future projects
New research topics and new partnerships
Pierre Hornych
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Optical fibres: towards internal damage measurement? — Colas test
Jean-Luc Gautier
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Inductive electric vehicle charging system embedded in the road — Bombardier test
Sergio Pérez
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New urban pavement concepts — the CUD pavement example
François de Larrard
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Discussion — Introduction: The need for full-scale experiments
Hervé Guiraud
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Closing remarks
Thierry Kretz — Head of the MAST Department (2013)

Group photo

35th anniversary symposium of the fatigue carousel — 2013
35th anniversary symposium of the fatigue carousel — 2013
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