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This section provides suggestions for getting started with IHSDM as a new user or as a previous user of the tool.
Acronyms/Abbreviations
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IHSDM is a suite of software analysis tools used to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways.
IHSDM is a decision-support tool that provides estimates of a highway design's expected safety and operational performance. Results of the IHSDM support decisionmaking in the highway design process. Intended users include highway project managers, designers, and traffic and safety reviewers in State and local highway agencies and in engineering consulting firms.
The following FAQs will help you to download and install the IHSDM software.
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Use .csv files with the FlexMAT™ Rutting v2.1 analysis tool to successfully perform the asphalt pavement rutting analysis. This set of files includes an expanded MERRA2 temperature database from 2,798 locations across the United States, and 20 years (1996–2015) of temperature information....
FlexMAT Rutting v2.1.1
FlexMAT™ for Rutting is an Excel-based analysis tool for characterizing rutting of asphalt pavement mixtures from AMPT test results. This includes analyzing the AMPT stress sweep rutting (SSR) test results (AASHTO TP134) to provide shift permanent deformation...
FlexMAT Cracking v2.1.1
FlexMAT™ for Cracking is a Microsoft® Excel-based analysis tool for characterizing dynamic modulus and cracking of asphalt pavement mixtures from Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester (AMPT) test results. This includes determining the 2S2P1D dynamic modulus...