| Research area | Project title | Project number | Contractor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integration project | Integration of design subsystems and methodologies into an integrated design system | SARDS/ILP | PMC |
| Pavement Performance Information System | The development and population of a pavement performance information system | SARDS/PPIS | MAS |
| Traffic demand analysis | A tyre-pavement contact stress information system | SARDS/A-1 | CSIR |
| A traffic volume and axle load information system | SARDS/A-2 | TE | |
| Guidelines on conducting traffic surveys and processing the data for the purpose of pavement design | SARDS/A-3 | CSIR | |
| The effects of vehicle dynamics and vehicle speed on traffic input to the design method | SARDS/A-4 | TE | |
| Material resilient response models | Resilient response models for unbound material | SARDS/B-1a | PMC |
| Resilient response models for bituminous material | SARDS/B-1b | CSIR | |
| Resilient response models for stabilised material | SARDS/B-1c | CSIR | |
| Agreement between different methods of calibrating material response models, especially linear-elastic material models. | SARDS/B-2 | CSIR | |
| Documentation on material testing, the interpretation of results, the derivation of design inputs and model calibration. | SARDS/B-3 | CSIR | |
| Primary pavement response models | Improved modelling of the complex tyre-pavement contact patch in terms of stress magnitude and contact area shape | SARDS/C-1 | CSIR |
| A benchmark of measured stresses and strains collected on a variety of pavements for various loading conditions | SARDS/C-2 | CSIR | |
| Improved modelling of the primary resilient response of pavement systems | SARDS/C-3 | PMC | |
| Damage models calibrated for the effects of field variables and traffic loads | Improved damage models for bituminous material | SARDS/D-1 | CSIR |
| Improved damage models for unbound material including the pavement subgrade | SARDS/D-2 | PMC | |
| Improved damage models for stabilised material | SARDS/D-3 | PMC | |
| Cross-cutting topics | An environmental and field variables information system incorporating the effects of spatial and time variation | SARDS/E-1 | CSIR |
| Guidelines on the collection and interpretation of statistical information | SARDS/E-2 | TE | |
| Probabilistic, linear recursive and non-linear recursive simulation | SARDS/E-3 | PMC | |
| A design input information system for pavement materials | SARDS/E-4 | PMC | |
| Concrete and block pavements | The inclusion of block-pavement performance simulation in the SARDS design system | SARDS/CBP | PMC |
| Improvements to concrete pavement performance simulation in the SARDS design system | SARDS/CBP | PMC | |
| Seal design and performance simulation | Materials and system modelling of seal performance including field verification. | SARDS/SS | CSIR |