Life Cycle Event Activities

The following controls are located on the Input -> Life Cycle Page.

This page is used to define the list of activities for a life cycle event. An activity can be an Add or a Remove. The following is the list of the selection (Kinds) for each:

•Add

•Layer: HMA, PCC, AB, LCB, CTB-Class A, CTB-Class B, ATPB, CTPB, CCPR, FDR, PDR, AS, LTS, CSO, SG

•Seal Coat: Chip Seal, Slurry Seal, Fog Seal, Cape Seal, Sand Seal, Tack Coat, Prime Coat

•Reflective Coating: Bisphenol A, Polyester Styrene, Styrene Acrylate

•Remove

•Mill asphalt

•Mill concrete

•Grind & Groove

•Cold plane

•Excavate

•Haul Soil

When an activity is defined and saved, eLCAP will generate a default material to be used (e.g., a specific kind of HMA when adding an HMA layer) and a list of the construction equipment necessary to implement the activity. eLCAP will also compute the quantities of material using the project limits (post mile start/end and number of lanes), the cross section defined on the Project Information page, and the thickness (add layer or remove material) specified for the activity. eLCAP will also provide time estimates for each piece of construction equipment. The default material and the computed material quantities and equipment time estimates may be edited.

You may delete any or all of the items generated for an activity. In addition, you can manually add materials and equipment. In fact, you can skip defining any activities at all and directly add materials and their associated quantities, and equipment and its associated times of operation. But in most cases, defining activities for an event is more efficient than manually building lists of materials and equipment.

Columns 6 - 10 are used to tell eLCAP how much of the various cross section widths to include in the analysis for that activity. The default value for these columns is 100%, but you can change it to something less if the situation calls for it. In addition, some of the percentage columns do not apply for some selections and labeled as "N/A". For example, when adding a "paveable" layer such as HMA, the Unpaved Shoulder fields are shown as N/A.

Also, when adding a Seal Coat or a Reflective Coating, the Thickness and Number of Lifts fields are shown as N/A.

The following discusses each control associated with adding activities for an event. Each row in the grid is a single activity for the selected event.

1.This title applies the activity, material and construction equipment grids, emphasizing that these three grids are associated with a specific event.

2.This control lists the valid operations for an activity: Add and Remove.

3.This contents of this control is dependent on the operation; it lists the valid Kind of operations for the selected operation.

4.This grid column is generated by eLCAP and it indicates a layer number. When using the Add Activity button, a new activity is added to the bottom of the grid and becomes Layer 1 and the layers above the new layer have their layer numbers incremented by 1. Therefore, it usually easier to construct the pavement cross section from the bottom-most layer. You can get the same effect by using the Insert button in the Actions column. Adding seal coats and reflective coatings does not change the layer numbers.

5.This contents of this control is dependent on the selected Kind of activity.

6.Supply the percent of the Left Unpaved Shoulder (UPS) width to include in the activity.

7.Supply the percent of the Left Paved Shoulder (PS) width to include in the activity.

8.Supply the percent of the Traveled way width to include in the activity.

9.Supply the percent of the Right Paved Shoulder (PS) width to include in the activity.

10.Supply the percent of the Right Unpaved Shoulder (UPS) width to include in the activity.

11.Supply the thickness (for layers and for removing material).

12.Select the units used for thickness.

13.eLCAP will compute the number of lifts for you based on the layer type and the thickness of the layer. You may change the generated value.

14.Operations to be applied to the activity (row): Add, Delete, Insert, Cancel and Save.

15.This button is used to add an activity to the end of the bottom of the list.

The question mark in the blue circle in the upper-right of the control group allows you to get help on the controls (this topic).

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