Road Doctor™ Designer
Road Doctor™ Designer is a tool designed for road design consultants and contractors. It can be used for viewing and editing projects created with the software itself or projects designed with Road Doctor™ PRO. Datasets linked to the project can be used for data analysis, rehabilitation planning and dimensioning.
Road Doctor™ Designer uses the same integrated data view as Road Doctor™ PRO. The user links all gathered information of the research subject to one Road Doctor™ project. All data can be handled together and presented in an integrated view. Data presentation capabilities in the view are diverse.
The software cannot be used for editing, preprocessing or interpretation of ground penetrating radar data. It is presumed that the GPR data is already processed and interpreted and ready for use. However, on-screen processing of the data, GPR profile and interpretation presentation and the printing of results to, for example, CAD or GIS formats are possible.
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In the upper left side of the figure is a digital video and the lower left side contains a map. On the upper right side is layer thicknesses interpreted from GPR data and designed rehabilitation. Below that the rehabilitation plan is presented by being marked in various bars and including distances and comments. Third from the top on the right are bearing capacities of the structure: red = initial bearing capacity, blue = target bearing capacity, green = result bearing capacity (after rehabilitation). FWD results are presented in the bottom right as deflecting curves.
Structural Analysis
The software analysis tools have been specially designed to serve the condition analysis and rehabilitation design of roads and streets. Examples of analysis tools are pavement distress inventory based on the video from the site, distress index calculation from measurement data and bearing capacity calculation from FWD data and GPR interpreted layer thicknesses. Condition classification sections for repair planning can also be calculated using various weighted analyze factors chosen by the interpreter.
Rehabilitation Planning
The software enables rehabilitation planning and dimensioning for existing roads by using Odemark´s method. Layer modulus values needed in dimensioning are calculated with the help of Dynatest Elmod® link or with a 2-3 layer Forward Calculation (from FWD data) built in the software. Tools in the software make it possible to estimate the required amount of material and the preliminary cost. The software can also be utilized by monitoring various work stages and checking quality control of a finished project with the help of GPS positioning built into the software.
External Map and Printing
All data in the software can be exported with coordinate and/or position information. The possible output formats are suitable for use in other software such as CAD, ArcGIS, MapInfo, etc. The software itself also has an effective tool for making maps of interest directly from various types of open datasets. Still images can be created from large files such as video and GPR data to save disk space. These still images and all other linked data can be viewed by the client with the free Road Doctor™ Viewer software. Views can be created and saved ready for the client to open, saving time and allowing the most relevant information and results of the project to be immediately focused on.