- Software Related Documents
- Design Related Documents
- Backcalculation Tool Related Documents
- Addendums to the Manual of Practice
Release Notes
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.6.1 Release Notes (PDF) [3/9/2021]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.6 Release Notes (PDF) [6/26/2020]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.5.5 Release Notes (PDF) [6/27/2019]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.5.4 Release Notes (PDF) [04/08/2019]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.5.3 Release Notes (PDF) [10/16/2018]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.5.2 Release Notes (PDF) [8/30/2018]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.5 Release Notes (PDF) [7/1/2018]
AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Build 2.3 Release Notes (PDF) [7/1/2016]
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:
Other Documents
Suggested Architectural Guidelines for Project Software Deliverables
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]
Backcalculation Tool Related Documents
Everseries User Guide_Specific Chapters (PDF) [8/3/2017]
Top Down Cracking Addendum to MOP (PDF) [6/30/2020]
MERRA Climate Updates Addendum 1 MOP Redline (docx) [8/24/2018]
MERRA Climate Instructions Addendum 2 (docx) [8/24/2018]
IDT Addendum 3 MOP (docx) [6/10/2018]
Recalibration Addendum 4 MOP (docx) [7/10/2018]
Recalibration Addendum 5 MOP (docx) [7/10/2018]
Reset Performance Parameters Addendum 6 MOP (docx) [7/10/2018]
Final Report SJPCP BCOA (PDF) [7/31/2017]
SJPCP Short Jtd Bonded PCC Overlay Asphalt Procedure Addendum (PDF) [Revised - 3/23/2018]
Climate Addendum (PDF) [7/13/2016]
Reflection Cracking Addendum to MOP (PDF) [12/25/2015]
Layer Dependent RLPD Coefficients (PDF) [7/25/2015]
PCC Calibration Coefficients (PDF) [7/22/2015]
NALS (PDF) [7/12/2015]