Global Controls

The home page for CalME is shown below. It consists of a left pane with Useful links and login controls, a series of page tabs, and some controls at the upper right and  main pane that contains the content of each page as they are selected. The page tabs are disabled until you login.

These global controls are always available regardless of which page you are currently viewing.

Section notes:

1.Useful links

•In addition to links to Caltrans and UCPRC, link to the old version of CalME is provided here to allow smoother transition between versions.

1.Page tabs - you navigate between application pages by selecting a page tab

•Home - the home page

•Instructions - basic instructions on how to use CalME, currently only provides links to this online help and some files used for CalME training.

•Projects - this page is where you select the current project and trial to use, add/delete projects and trials, etc.

•Input - there are two pages (two menu items) associated with the Input tab: Project Information is where you define the pavement project, e.g., the location on a route, traffic loads, climate zone and pavement structure and Simulation Parameters is where you specify simulation parameters.

•ME Design - this page is used to perform a Mechanistic-Empirical (ME) simulation

•Tools - there are four pages (four menu items) associate with the Tools tab: Material Library, Calculators, CalFP-Web and CalAC-Web.

•Interpreting Results - this page is still under construction and will provide assistance in understanding the results generated by CalME

•About - a page that provides information about CalME

3.Unit selection - CalME allows you to define your pavement project in either U.S. Customary or SI (metric) units. You can switch between the unit selection at any time and CalME will convert the data to the selected units. Reports and graphs will use the selected units also.

4.Save To DB - selecting this button will save the current data in the UI to the database. You will be asked to confirm this request. CalME will do an automatic save when you run a Mechanistic-Empirical (ME) simulation.

5.Save To File -  selecting this button will generate a text version (in json format) of your data and allow you to download it to your local hard drive. You can later use the controls on the Projects page to upload this file into CalME.

6.Login controls - these controls allow you to:

a.login/logout

b.change your password

c.get a temporary password if you have forgotten your current password