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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

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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!!!

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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:

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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

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Panama Channel hour flight Possible Nicaragua Channel Regional Context

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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

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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

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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

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Areas of Expertise Seismic and Risk Management Engineering. Geotechnical Engineering. Structural Engineering. Construction Materials Engineering. Ingeniera 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

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

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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

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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

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NATURAL SCALE MICRO MACRO

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FACILITIES PaveLab (Pavements Laboratory)

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PaveLab Facilities > 1 000 000 load repetitions after august 2013

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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.

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

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