This tool was developed by the University of California Pavement
Research Center (UCPRC) for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
CalME is a software program developed by Caltrans/UCPRC using the Mechanistic-Empirical (ME)
methodologies for analyzing and designing the performance of flexible pavements. CalME uses
an "incremental recursive" (I-R) approach that models the entire damage process, not
just the initial condition after construction and the final failure condition. Instead, CalME
simulates the pavement performance starting from the initial undamaged pavement stress, strain, and
deformation responses to temperature and load to the end failure state. CalME has been calibrated
using data from Caltrans pavement management system.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please send an email
to Raghubar.Shrestha@dot.ca.gov. All
feedback on the tool will be welcomed.