Publications by David H. Timm, P.E.

Department of Civil Engineering

Auburn University

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Note:  Within each grouping, publications are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent are listed first).

Solanki, P., M. Zaman, K. Muraleetharan and D. Timm,  “Evaluation of Resilient Moduli of Pavement Layers at an Instrumented Section on I-35 in Oklahoma,” International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design, Volume No. 10, Special Issue, 2009, pp. 167-188.
Yang, Y., J. Wei, W. Lin, D. Timm and G. Huber,  “Binzhou Perpetual Pavement Test Road Dynamic Response of Pavement Under Very Heavy Loads,” International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design, Volume No. 10, Special Issue, 2009, pp. 151-166.
Timm, D.H., G.A. Sholar, J. Kim and J.R. Willis,  “Forensic Investigation and Validation of Energy Ratio Concept,” Transportation Research Record, Transportation Research Board, accepted for publication, 2009.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, “Repeatability of Asphalt Strain Measurements under Falling Weight Deflectometer Loading,” Transportation Research Record 2094, Transportation Research Board, 2009, pp. 3-11.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, “Repeatability of Asphalt Strain Measurements under Full Scale Dynamic Loading,” Transportation Research Record 2087, Transportation Research Board, 2008, pp. 40-48.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, “A Forensic Investigation of Debonding in a Rich-Bottom Pavement,” Transportation Research Record 2040, Transportation Research Board, 2007, pp. 107-114.
Timm, D.H. and D.E. Newcomb, “Perpetual Pavement Design for Flexible Pavements in the U.S.,” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 111-119.

Priest, A.L. and D.H. Timm, “Mechanistic Comparison of Wide-Base Single Versus Standard Dual Tire Configurations,” Transportation Research Record No. 1949, Transportation Research Board, 2006, pp. 155-163.

Timm, D.H., R.E. Turochy and J.M. Bower, “Effect of Load Spectra on Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design,” Transportation Research Record No. 1947, Transportation Research Board, 2006, pp. 146-154.
McQueen, J.M. and D.H. Timm, “Statistical Analysis of Automated vs. Manual Pavement Condition Surveys,” Transportation Research Record 1940, Transportation Research Board, 2005, pp. 55-62.
Timm, D.H., Tisdale, S.M. and Turochy, R.E., “Axle Load Spectra Characterization by Mixed Distribution Modeling,” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 2, Feb. 2005, pp. 83-88.

Priest, A.L. and D.H. Timm, “A Full Scale Structural Pavement Structural Study for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design,” Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Volume 74, 2005, pp. 519-556.

Turochy, R.A., S.M. Tisdale and D.H. Timm, “Spatial and Temporal Variations in Axle Load Spectra and Impacts on Pavement Design,” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 10, Oct. 2005, pp. 802-808.
Guzina, B.B., V.R. Voller and D.H. Timm, “Crack Spacing in Strained Films,” Journal de Physique IV, 120, 2004, pp. 201-208.

Timm, D.H., Guzina, B.B. and Voller, V.R., “Prediction of Thermal Crack Spacing,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 125-142.

Timm, D.H. and Newcomb, D.E., “Calibration of Flexible Pavement Performance Equations,” Transportation Research Record 1853, Transportation Research Board, 2003, pp. 134-142.

Timm, D.H. and Voller, V.R., “Field Validation and Parametric Study of a Thermal Crack Spacing Model,” Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 72, 2003, pp. 356-387.

Timm, D.H. and Skok, E.L., “The Impact of Assumed vs. Measured Vehicle Distributions on County Road Flexible Pavement Design,”  Transportation Research Record 1819, Volume 2, Transportation Research Board, 2003, pp. 244-250.
Timm, D.H.,  Voller, V.R., Lee, E.B. and Harvey, J., “CalCool:  A Multi-Layer Asphalt Pavement Cooling Tool for Temperature Prediction During Construction,” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 2, 2001, pp. 169 - 185.
Timm, D.H., David E. Newcomb and Theodore V. Galambos, “Incorporation of Reliability into Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design,” Transportation Research Record 1730, Transportation Research Board, 2000, pp. 73-80.  Winner of the K.B. Woods Award for best paper in the area of design and construction.

Timm, D.H., David E. Newcomb and Bjorn Birgisson, “Development of Mechanistic-Empirical Design for Minnesota,” Transportation Research Record No. 1629, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 1998, pp. 181-188. 

Timm, D.H., D. Gierhart and J.R. Willis,  “Strain Regimes Measured in Two Full Scale Perpetual Pavements,” Proceedings, International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2009.
Timm, D.H., M.M. Robbins and R.W. May,  “Incorporation of Sulfur Extended Asphalt Mix in Perpetual Pavement Design,” Proceedings, International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2009.
Robbins, M.M. and D.H. Timm, “Effects of Strain Pulse Durations on Tensile Strain in a Perpetual Pavement,” Proceedings, International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2009.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, “A Comparison of Laboratory Fatigue Thresholds to Measured Strains in Full-Scale Pavements,” Proceedings, International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2009.
Robbins, M.M. and D.H. Timm, “An Investigation into Strain Pulse Durations on a Full-Scale Instrumented Pavement,” Proceedings of the 88th Annual Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Robbins, M.M. and D.H. Timm, “Temperature and Velocity Effects on a Flexible Perpetual Pavement,” 3rd International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
Taylor, A.J. and D.H. Timm, “Effects of Pavement Distress on Measured Pavement Response Under Accelerated Loading,” 3rd International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
Timm, D.H., Peters, K.D. and R.E. Turochy, “Effects of Axle Load Spectra Shifts on Highway Infrastructure Damage and Cost,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Heavy Vehicles, Paris, France, 2008.
Peters, K.D. and D.H. Timm, “Effects of Increasing Truck Weight Limit on Highway Infrastructure Damage,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Heavy Vehicles, Paris, France, 2008.
Priest, A.L. and D.H. Timm, “A Framework for Flexible Pavement Fatigue Transfer Function Calibration Using Accelerated Full Scale Testing,” Proceedings of the 87th Annual Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2008.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, “Flexible Pavement Fatigue Cracking and Measured Strain Response at the NCAT Test Track,” Proceedings of the 87th Annual Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2008.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, "Utilization of Embedded Instrumentation to Enhance Material Characterization in Backcalculation," International Conference on the Advanced Characterization of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials, Athens, Greece, June 2007, pp. 833-841.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, "Forensic Investigation of a Rich Bottom Flexible Pavement Under Accelerated Loading," International Conference on the Advanced Characterization of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials, Athens, Greece, June 2007, pp. 1021-1030.
Huber, G., D.H. Timm, Yang and Gao, “Perpetual Pavements: Applying the Approach to Very Heavy Loads,” International Conference on the Advanced Characterization of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials, Athens, Greece, June 2007, pp. 1723 – 1734.
Immanuel, S.S. and D.H. Timm, “A Field-Calibrated Strain Rut Prediction Model,” Proceedings of the 86th Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. 2007.
Timm, D.H., D.E. Newcomb and S. Suresh Immanuel, “A Practical Guide to Low Volume Road Perpetual Pavement Design,” International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2006.
Yongshun Yang, Xuechi Gao, Wang Lin, D.H. Timm, A.L. Priest, G.A. Huber and D.A. Andrewski, “Perpetual Pavements in China,” International Conference on Perpetual Pavements, Columbus, Ohio, 2006.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, “Practical Treatment of Dynamic Pavement Response Data,” 10th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, International Society of Asphalt Pavements, Quebec, 2006.
Selvaraj, S.I. and D.H. Timm, “Measured and Theoretical Pressures in Base and Subgrade Layers Under Dynamic Truck Loading,” Transportation and Development Institute Airport and Highway Specialty Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Atlanta, 2006.
Timm, D.H., “Design Comparisons Using the New Mechanistic-Empirical Rigid Pavement Design Guide,” Transportation and Development Institute Airport and Highway Specialty Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, Atlanta, 2006.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, “Measurement of Wheel Wander Under Live Traffic Conditions,” 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Trondheim, Norway, 2005.

Barrett, W.E. and D.H. Timm, “Theoretical vs Measured Pavement Responses Under Dynamic Loading,” 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Trondheim, Norway, 2005.
Timm, D.H. and J. Young, “The Effects of Load Spectra and Variability on Perpetual Pavement Design,” International Symposium on Design & Construction of Long Lasting Asphalt Pavements, International Society for Asphalt Pavements, Auburn, AL, 2004.
Guzina, Timm and Voller, “Prediction of Thermal Crack Spacing,” 2nd International Conference on Thermal Process Modeling and Computer Simulation, Nancy, France, 2003.
Timm, David H., David E. Newcomb and Bjorn Birgisson, “Variability of Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design Parameters,” Fifth International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Norway, 1998, pp. 629-638.
V. R. Voller, D. E. Newcomb, B. Chadbourn, R. De Sombre, D. Timm, and J. A. Luoma, “A Computer Tool for Predicting for Cooling of Asphalt Pavements,” Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering held in Duluth, Minnesota, September 27-30, 1998, pp. 661-671.
Chadbourn, Bruce A., David E. Newcomb, and David H. Timm, “Measured and Theoretical Comparisons of Traffic Loads and Pavement Response Distributions,” Proceedings, Eighth International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, Seattle, WA, 1997, pp. 229-238.

Taylor, A.J. and D.H. Timm, "Mechanistic Characterization of Resilient Moduli for Unbound Pavement Layer Materials," Report No. 09-06, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2009.
Timm, D.H., N. Tran, A.J. Taylor, M.M. Robbins and R. Powell,  "Evaluation of Mixture Performance and Structural Capacity of Pavements Using Shell Thiopave®," Report No. 09-05, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2009.
Peters-Davis, K. and D.H. Timm, "Recalibration of the Asphalt Layer Coefficient," Report No. 09-03, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2009.
Timm, D.H., "Design, Construction, and Instrumentation of the 2006 Test Track Structural Study," Report No. 09-01, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2009.
Timm, D.H., R. West, A.L. Priest, S.S. Immanuel, J. Zhang and E.R. Brown, "Phase II NCAT Test Track Results," Report No. 06-05, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2006.
Willis, J.R. and D.H. Timm, "Forensic Investigation of a Rich Bottom Pavement," Report No. 06-04, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2006.
Priest, A.L. and D.H. Timm, "Methodology and Calibration of Fatigue Transfer Functions for Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design," Report No. 06-03, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2006.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, “Material Properties of the 2003 NCAT Test Track Structural Study,” Report No. 06-01, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2006.
Turochy, R.E., D.H. Timm and S.M. Tisdale, “Truck Equivalency Factors, Load Spectra Modeling and Effects on Pavement Design,” Report No. 930-594, Auburn University Highway Research Center, 2005.
Priest, A.L., D.H. Timm and W.E. Barrett, "Mechanistic Comparison of Wide-Base vs. Standard Dual Tire Configurations," Report No. 05-03, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2005.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, "Wheel Wander at the NCAT Test Track," Report No. 05-02, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2004.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest, "Dynamic Pavement Response Data Collection and Processing at the NCAT Test Track," Report No. 04-03, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2004.
Timm, D.H. and A.M. Warren, "Performance of Rubblized Pavement Sections in Alabama," Auburn University Highway Research Center, Report No. IR-04-02, 2004.
Timm, D.H., A.L. Priest and T.V. McEwen, "Design and Instrumentation of the Structural Pavement Experiment at the NCAT Test Track," Report No. 04-01, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn University, 2004.
Timm, D.H. and J.M. McQueen, "A Study of Manual vs. Automated Pavement Condition Surveys," Auburn Unversity Highway Research Center, Report No. IR-04-01, 2004.
Skok, E.L., Timm, D.H., Brown, M.L. and Clyne, T.R., “Best Practices for the Design and Construction of Low Volume Roads,” Final Report, MN/RC-2002-17, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN, 2002.
Timm, Guzina and Voller, “Prediction of Thermal Crack Spacing,” Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation, Report No. UMSI 2002/08, University of Minnesota, 2002.

Voller, McGannon, Rindal, Timm, Clyne, Newcomb, “Measurement of Moisture in Aggregate Stockpiles,” Minnesota Department of Transportation, Report No. MN/RC 2001-21, St. Paul, MN, 2001.
Timm, D.H., David E. Newcomb and Theodore V. Galambos, “Incorporation of Reliability into the Minnesota Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Method,”  Final Report, MN/RC-1999-35, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN, 1999.
Newcomb, D.E., Skok, E.L. and Timm, D.H., “Minnesota Load Volume Road Design 1998,” Final Report, MN/RC-1999-34, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN, 1999.
Timm, D.H., D.E. Newcomb and B. Birgisson, “Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Thickness Design: The Minnesota Method,” Staff Paper, MN/RC-P99-10, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN, 1999.
Chadbourn, B. A., D. E. Newcomb, V. R. Voller, R. A. DeSombre, J. A. Luoma and D. H. Timm, “An Asphalt Paving Tool for Adverse Conditions,” Final Report, MN/RC-1998-18, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN, 1998.

Timm, D.H., "Perpetual Pavement Design for Low Volume Roads," Paving the Way, Asphalt Pavement Association of Indiana, May 2007.
Timm, D.H., "Life Cycle Cost Analysis of a Perpetual Pavement," Ohio Asphalt Magazine, Issue 1, Vol. 4, Flexible Pavements of Ohio, Winter 2007, pp. 12-13.
Timm, D.H. and A.L. Priest "Year of the Pavement," Roads and Bridges, Vol. 44, No. 9, September, 2006.
Timm, D.H., A.L. Priest, Yongshun Yang and Xuechi Gao, "Perpetual Pavements in China," Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Vol. 11, No. 3, May/June 2006, pp. 14 - 19.
Timm, D.H., "Perpetual Pavement Research at the NCAT Test Track," Better Roads, November, 2004.
Barrett, W.E., Timm, D.H. and Stroup-Gardiner, M., “Construction in Adverse Conditions: An Industry Survey,” Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Volume 8, No. 1, 2003, pp. 33-34.

Timm, D.H., Newcomb, D.E., “Lies, Damned Lies and Traffic Forecasting,” Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Volume 7, No. 3, 2002.

Newcomb, D.E., Timm, D.H. and Mahoney, J. “Mechanistic Pavement Design:  It's Still Dirt, Rocks, and Asphalt, Right?” Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Volume 7, No. 2, 2002.
Newcomb, D.E. and Timm, D.H., “Mechanistic Pavement Design:  A Homogenized, Icey-Tropic Half-What?” Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Volume 7, No. 1, 2002, pp. 26-30.
Newcomb, D.E. and Timm, D.H., “Mechanistic Pavement Design:  The Next Wave,” Hot Mix Asphalt Technology, Volume 6, No. 5, 2001, pp. 49 – 51.