AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design

Release Notes

Database Resource Documents

Pavement ME Design provides the user features to save/search/load data from a database. To get started, users must install a database first. Two empty database files are available for the user to download and install, one is for SQL and another is for Oracle.

More information is available through the following links:

ME Design Database Setup and Access Instructions

Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Interim Edition: A Manual of Practice

The AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Interim Edition: A Manual of Practice provides the highway community with a state-of-the-practice analysis tool for evaluating pavement structures using mechanistic-empirical principles, using project specific traffic, climate, and materials data for estimating damage accumulation over a specified pavement service life. This manual is applicable to designs for new, reconstructed, and rehabilitated flexible, rigid, and semi-rigid pavements. Performance and distress predictions models are used to aid the pavement designer in determining the desired pavement section.

Release Notes

AASHTOWare Backcalculation Tools Build v1.1.5 Release Notes (PDF) [9/30/2021]

AASHTOWare Backcalculation Tools Build v1.1.0 Release Notes (PDF) [3/19/2021]

AASHTOWare Backcalculation Tools Build v1.0.6 Release Notes (PDF) [12/4/2020]

AASHTOWare Backcalculation Tools Build v1.0.4 Release Notes (PDF) [6/16/2020]

AASHTOWare Backcalculation Tools Build 1.0 Release Notes (PDF) [7/10/2017]

Import File Sample Format

Backcalculation Tool Thickness File Import Sample Format (Build v1.1.0) [02/23/2021]

User Manual

To use the most updated user manual along with the software, please download the user manual and place it in the Document directory under ME Design installation directory, for example: C:\Program Files (x86)\AASHTOWare\BcT\Document.

Backcalculation Tool User Manual (PDF) [9/30/2021]