Launch of Heara Station

Pleased to announce the launch of our first station for the measurement of pavement temperature in Libya. Station # 1 is “HEARA” station; is located at Wadi Elhera on Azizya – Gharian Road, close to the police checkpoint just before the road starts to climb the mountain to Gharian. The measurement of temperature will be of the actual road itself. We have cut a channel in the pavement and connected the thermocouples at different levels through the pavement depth.

The thermocouples are connected to a data logger to record and store the measurement during day and night. The station also contains a special instrument to measure the solar radiation.

These measurements will give us an idea about the temperature regimes that encountered in the pavement in this area. Later on it will be analyzed and used to develop a new model for predicting the pavement temperature for design purposes.
The importance of this study comes from the fact that it is the first in Libya and its results will be very useful for the development of a new and rational design and construction procedures.

Heara Sta. is supervised by Eng. Ahmad Hassan, PG at the Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of AL-Fateh, Tripoli.

Proposal for New Pave-Temp Station

Engineer Khalifa Saad from Agilat (West Libya) doing his MS degree in Highway Engineering at the Academy of Graduate Studies (Tripoli, Libya) will join the research program "Measurment of Pavement Temperature in Libya" by establishing a new station in some location at the west of the country. He got a promise from the GPCMPT to sponser the project.
To order the data logger Khalif pls follow the link below.

We still need other researchers to join the program and establish a measurement stations in other parts of Libya.

Measuring Pavement Temperature Update

Dr. Imbarek Blog
To measure the pavement temperature you need to have a pavement and measuring tools and somebody to do that. That’s all !. We discovered that isn’t all; you need to have permission to do that. Where do you think the permission should come from. Obviously, from the authority responsible for highways. Wright, we have arranged for that permission and got it in one week, but there is an extra one to be obtained from the Security (we never thought of that one). This extra permission took us one month to get it. We were hopping to start taking readings some time in June so we can have a good deal of summer season (June, July, August and September). Unfortunately, due to this delays we missed June, July and may be August. It means to get enough data for our model we have to wait for an other summer to come (It is a huge delay). The good news that we will start some time this month and will continuo our measurements up to next summer.