1. LanammeUCR PROPOSAL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF APT 2016 Ing. Luis Guillermo Loria-Salazar, MSc, PhD General Director, Transportation Infrastructure Program National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models, LanammeUCR University of Costa Rica

2. COSTA RICA -Located in Central America. -52,000 km 2 (Texas is 700,000 km 2, Mexico is 2,000,000 km 2 ). -4,000,000 people. -No army since 1948. -2 million of tourists in 2013. -Biggest INTEL facility in the world -2011: The happiest country in the world!!!

3. Traveling to COSTA RICA -L.A. -San Francisco -Chicago -Phoenix -Houston -Dallas -Fort Lauderdale -Miami -Orlando -New York -Newark -Denver -Madrid -Montreal -Atlanta -Mineapolis -Philadelphia -Charlottee All major airlines travel to Costa Rica in a daily basis from:

4. Traveling to COSTA RICA -Hundreds of good hotels -No visa is required for most of the countries -Various conference centers to fulfill any conference need -Several auditoriums at UCR -LanammeUCR auditorium can easily accommodate 150 people, and bigger ones available on campus TOURISM is our MAIN industry… -The best….The kindness of costarican people…

5. Panama Channel hour flight Possible Nicaragua Channel Regional Context

6. An hour's drive from the airport to the beach Three-hour trip between the airport and the best beaches Two-hour drive from the airport to the Arenal Volcano Local Attraction

7. Date of creation: August 26 th, 1940 Total area: 83,613,938.95 m 2 Buildings area: 474.616,55 m 2 7 regional campuses 13 colleges, 47 schools 1 planetary 98 research units 37,600 students 5,256 professors 2,615 administrative 104 undergrad programs 95 master program 10 PhDs University of Costa Rica Regional campuses Main campus

8. ¿What is LanammeUCR? LanammeUCR is the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models of the University of Costa Rica. We work on: Applied researchApplied research AcademicsAcademics Technologhy TransferTechnologhy Transfer Technical cooperationTechnical cooperation First latin-american laboratory accredited by ISO 17025-2002  80 test accredited

9. Areas of Expertise Seismic and Risk Management Engineering. Geotechnical Engineering. Structural Engineering. Construction Materials Engineering. Ingeniería Vial (PITRA Program– 8114 y 8603 Law). LEGAL BASE: 7099 law  National Laboratory of reference 8603 law, Auditing, research, specs and tech-transfer  1.0% fuel tax ≈ $8MM/year

10. CURRENT INSTALLED CAPACITY Civil engineers, Chemist, Chemical and Mechanical engineers 150 workers11 PhDs12 M.Sc.50 Students-assistants

11. Facilities Area Two buildings of laboratories and technology transference center: 8,000 m 2 Liberia Campus: 1200 m 2 of buildings in a total area of 10,000 m 2

12. Nano-Scale evaluation AFM, Raman, FTIR, DSC, TGA DMA Evaluation of components materials Rheology Dynamic characterization of materials Fatigue, E*, RLT, Creep, APA, Hamburg Wheel Track Performance evaluation: Instrumentation of natural scale tracks HVS MICRO MACRO NATURAL SCALE NANO

13. NATURAL SCALE MICRO MACRO

14. FACILITIES PaveLab (Pavements Laboratory)

15. PaveLab Facilities > 1 000 000 load repetitions after august 2013

16. XVIII CILA, 2005: Iberoamerican Asphalt conference. 600 participants. 200 papers. 24 countries. I CISEV 2008: Iberoamerican road safety conference. 150 papers. 600 participants. 27 countries. HVSIA 2013. 8 countries. CITRANS: every 2 yrs @LanammeUCR T 2 center. > 300 training courses after 2003. > 3500 partipants: technicians, engineers and citizens.

17. Available dates: May to September (subject to approval of the committee) Estimated cost: $400 - $500 Proposed chairmans: Main chairman: Luis G. Loría-Salazar (LanammeUCR) Co-chair: Gerardo Flintsch (Virginia Tech)

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19. Thank youhttp://www.lanamme.ucr.ac.cr/ luis.loriasalazar@ucr.ac.cr