Transition Plan for AASHTO
May 2000

APPENDIX B
REVISED OBJECTIVES AND MEMBERSHIP (as of 1997)

Mission

Goal 1

1. Testing procedures to identify potential reactivity are implemented;
2. Safe PCC mix designs to prevent premature failure are developed and implemented;
3. Existing ASR problems are identified; and
4. Rehabilitation strategies are implemented to extend the working life of ASR-affected PCC pavements and structures.

Goal 2

Action Plan 1

• Claudio Manissero and Roger Surdahl gather previous ASR surveys and distribute to Team by 9/30/97.
• Bryce Simons and Joe Barela design updated survey with help from Kevin Wylie and Phil Reid; draft done by 11/97.
• Bryce Simons and Joe Barela distribute survey to target customers and obtain results of survey by and of first quarter of 1998.
• Bryce Simons and Joe Barela collate and analyze results of survey by end of second quarter of 1998.
• Bill Carey, with input from the rest of the Team, identifies key literature on ASR from the database collected for the web site by the end of the first quarter of 1998.

Action Plan 2

• Margo Thomson obtains funding for web site by end of 9/97.
• Whole Team agrees on web site design by end of fourth quarter of 1997.
• Claudio Manissero and Moy Biswas develop and implement Web site by the end of the second quarter of 1998.
• Bryce Simons sets up ACI-SHRP ASR training course and obtains ACI buy-in by the end of the fourth quarter of 1997.
• Bryce Simons drafts up an ASR training program for review and approval of Team and ACI by the end of the second quarter of 1998.
• Bryce Simons implements training courses through ACI by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.
• Bryce Simons adepts training course for use of AASHTO Team members' use by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.
• Claudio Manissero and Margo Thomson develop a marketing communications plan and establish a budget for this plan by the end of the fourth quarter of 1997.

Action Plan 3

• Roger Surdahl will develop the draft guide specification based on the Mid-Atlantic ASR guide specification into the AASHTO format in active voice, and distribute it to the Team by November 10, 1997.
• The Team will meet in Albuquerque, NM on November 19 through 21, 1997 to rework and revise the draft specification.
• The ASR Team will accept a final Guide Specification at their meeting at TRB in January 1998.
• Margo Thomson will present the final ASR Guide Specification to the AASHTO Materials Subcommittee and Construction Subcommittee for acceptance ballot by July 1998.

Action Plan 4

• John Dewar will set up an FHWA funded travel account to assist in travel to other states by June 1998.
• Dan Johnston and Dave Gress will develop and distribute a one-page flyer to advertise the availability of the Team's technical assistance by May 1998.
• Individual ASR Team members will conduct site visits on request to view and discuss ASR problems and solutions beginning June 1998.
• Individual ASR Team members will answer inquiries and report each contact to Margo Thomson on a quarterly basis, beginning in June 1998.

Action Plan 5

• All Team members perform an annual review of existing ASR technology and submit the results of their review to the Team coordinator. The Team coordinator compiles this review material into an interim report, which is to be completed by the last quarter of the year.
• The Team will survey all states at the end of 1999 to gather feedback on the usefulness of item's for identification techniques, aggregate evaluation methods, mitigative methods, remediation methods, and the AASHTO ASR Guide Specification.
• The Team coordinator will establish a sub-team by the end of 1998 to develop the survey. The Team coordinator will distribute and collect the survey by 6/30/99.
• The final report on the review of ASR technology will be due at sunset (September 2000) from the Team coordinator and the sub-team, which developed the survey.

Action Plan 6

• Claudio Manissero will gather cost data from lead states based on their experiences by January 1998.
• Claudio Manissero will develop a survey for other AASHTO members to obtain from them information about costs associated with ASR by November 1997. Margo Thomson will distribute this survey to AASHTO members by December 1997, and collect the survey by March 1998.
• Claudio Manissero will lead the effort to analyze the data obtained in a. and b. above to obtain cost benefits of implementing SHRP ASR technology by September 1998.

ASR Lead State Team (as of 1997)