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Manual

CIRCLY 7.0 Materials database user guide


June 2021
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© The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2021.

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Contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................1
2 Materials database content ...........................................................................................................1
3 Installation instructions ................................................................................................................2

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1 Introduction
Transport and Main Roads has developed a materials database for use with CIRCLY 7.0 software
which is supplied and licenced by Mincad Systems Pty Ltd (trading as Pavement Science). The
materials database is intended to:

• facilitate the design of pavements following Transport and Main Roads guidelines and
standards, and

• be used by experienced pavement designers who are familiar with the operation of
CIRCLY 7.0.

This user guide summarises the content of the materials database and instructs users on how to
install the database so that it can be used with CIRCLY 7.0. More detailed information about
CIRCLY 7.0 is available from https://pavement-science.com.au.

The materials database includes the most common materials used on departmental projects. The
designer remains responsible for ensuring the selected materials and their assigned characteristics
are suitable and correct for the designs being undertaken. The database may not include all materials
needed to undertake any specific pavement design.

2 Materials database content


Materials included in the database are as defined in:

• Pavement Design Supplement (PDS) (Transport and Main Roads, 2021)

• Guide to Pavement Technology, Part 2: Pavement Structural Design (AGPT02)


(Austroads, 2017)

• Pavement Rehabilitation Manual (PRM) (Transport and Main Roads, 2020)

• Guide to Pavement Technology, Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment


Design (AGPT05) (Austroads, 2019), and

• Technical Specifications (MRTS) (Transport and Main Roads).

The material types included in the database are summarised in Table 2.

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Table 2 – Summary of materials included in the materials database

CIRCLY 7.0 database material type Material description


Asphalt-AC10 Size 10 mm dense graded asphalt, with
11.5% binder (by volume)
Asphalt-AC14 Size 14 mm dense graded asphalt, with
11.0% binder (by volume)
Asphalt-AC20 Size 20 mm dense graded asphalt, with
10.5% binder (by volume)
Asphalt-EME2 High modulus asphalt, with Transport and Main
Roads EME2 fatigue relationship
Asphalt-existing cracked / low modulus (no Existing asphalt (cracked/low modulus) (no fatigue)
fatigue)
Asphalt-OG Size 10 mm or 14 mm open graded asphalt
Asphalt-SMA10 Size 10 mm stone mastic asphalt, with
14.0% binder (by volume)
Asphalt-SMA14 Size 14 mm stone mastic asphalt, with
13.0% binder (by volume)
Asphalt-user defined User defined
Cement stabilised (heavily bound) Heavily bound stabilised granular material or lean
mix concrete
Foamed bitumen stabilised granular Foamed bitumen stabilised granular (either insitu or
plant-mixed), includes options for binder
volumes (Vb) of 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0%
Lightly bound (no sublayering) Lightly bound granular base, lightly bound granular
subbase or lightly bound granular improved layer
Subgrade – lime stabilised (no sublayering) Lime stabilised subgrade
Subgrade – Fill or subgrade treatments
Selected (AGPT02 sublayering)
Subgrade (AGPT02) Existing subgrade materials
Triple blend subbase Triple blend stabilised subbase
Unbound granular (AGPT02 sublayering) Unbound granular material
Unbound granular (no sublayering) Unbound granular material when sublayering is not
required (for example, cracked cemented material)

3 Installation instructions
1. Install CIRCLY 7.0 which is available from Mincad Systems Pty Ltd (trading as Pavement
Science) (see https://pavement-science.com.au/).

2. In Windows Explorer – choose the location that you would like to store your CIRCLY 7.0
database files. When you run CIRCLY 7.0, it will also save job files to this same location. It is
recommended to choose a location that is backed up (for example, a OneDrive folder).

3. In Windows Explorer – create a new folder at the chosen location; for example:
C:\OneDrive\CIRCLY7.0\data\2021 PDS.

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4. Download the materials database (LAYERS7.cmdb) from the publications page on the
Transport and Main Roads website at https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/business-industry/Technical-
standards-publications/Pavement-design-supplement.

5. In Windows Explorer – save the materials database (LAYERS7.cmdb) into the folder created
in Step 3.

6. In Windows Explorer – locate the CIRCLY 7.0 loads database on your


computer (LOADS7.cmdb). This may be in C:/Program Files (x86)/CIRCLY7.0/data or a
similar folder.

7. In Windows Explorer – copy the LOADS7.cmdb file and paste the file into the folder you
created in step 3.

8. You should now have two files in the created folder: LAYERS7.cmdb and LOADS7.cmdb.

9. Open CIRCLY 7.0 and go to Options / Paths – in the pop-up window, browse to find the folder
that you created in Step 3, as shown following in Figure 3(a):

Figure 3(a) – Setting the data path in CIRCLY 7.0

10. Click OK. You will be prompted to close and restart CIRCLY 7.0. Close CIRCLY 7.0 (it may
close automatically).

11. Open CIRCLY 7.0. When restarting CIRCLY 7.0, ignore the errors about 'no job files' and
'unable to backup data files'. If you are asked 'Are you sure you want to exit?', select 'No'.

12. You should then be able to select from the material types in the materials database, as shown
following in Figure 3(b).

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Figure 3(b) – Selecting material types in CIRCLY 7.0

13. If a material you need is not included, you can still add new materials in the usual way in
CIRCLY 7.0.

14. If you want to revert to your previous database or jobs, then you need to change the file path
in CIRCLY 7.0 back to what it was previously, as shown in Step 9 (for example, C:\Program
Files (x86)/CIRCLY7.0/data).

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