| Abstract: | The Total Pavement Acceptance Device (TPAD) is a continuous pavement deflection test device. Since the device is designed for total acceptance of pavements, the researchers have combined the deflection testing with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), digital video, and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will use the final system for testing both new pavements and those scheduled for rehabilitation. Since the release of the RDDana 1.0 software about three years ago, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) made several changes to the original RDDana 1.0 software based on the users' comments. TTI added new features, fixed small bugs, and made the current software more stable and easier to use. After all the updates, the researchers propose to rename the RDDana software to TPADana, and define this new software as version 2.0. This draft user's manual describes the data processing system, and used the data collected in a 2012 survey of US 287 in the Wichita Falls District. The executable load module for this software and the associated data from US 287 are supplied with the manual. |
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