Adding or Editing Categories
Shows how to add or edit Categories that can be used to interpret your data using colour coding.
Tutorials
Adding or Editing Criteria
Failure Criteria (also known as Transfer Functions) are critical to the use of the Mechanistic Empirical design method. This tutorial shows how to add or edit failure criteria in Rubicon Toolbox.
Adding or Editing Materials
In Rubicon Toolbox you can define default materials that can then be re-used in your design calculations. Setting up default materials makes it easier and faster to complete the material definition inputs in routine design situations.
Automated Backcalculation
This tutorial shows how to use the automated FWD Backcalculation tool in Rubicon Toolbox. The download is a zip file with instructions and an example Excel data template file.
Manual Backcalculation
This tutorial shows how to use the manual backcalculation tool in Rubicon Toolbox. The download is a zip file with instructions and an example Excel data template file.
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer
This tutorial shows how to use the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) tool in Rubicon Toolbox. The download is a zip file with instructions in Word plus an example Excel data template file.
Introduction to Database Tools
This tutorial introduces the Database Tools that are available in Rubicon Toolbox and shows you how to create a new Microsoft Access database and how to import data into it from Excel. The download consists of a tutorial in PDF format, plus an example data file in Excel.
Data Viewer
This tutorial introduces the powerful Data Viewer tool which can be used to create stripmaps in Rubicon Toolbox. The download is a zip file with instructions in PDF format plus a Microsoft Access database with example data.
Photo Logger
The Photo Logger is a useful tool to help you quickly turn road inspection photos into a neat document, complete with comments. The download is a zip file with instructions in PDF format plus some example photos and a video.
Pavement Definition
To use many of the design and analysis tools such as the Standard Axle design tool or the Finite Element analysis tool, you first have to define a pavement structure using the Pavement Definition tool. This video tutorial shows you how (link will navigate to Screencast.com).
Standard Axle Analysis (old version)
The Layered Elastic Theory (LET) Standard Axle design tool is a workhorse of many pavement design practitioners. This tutorial introduces the first version of the Standard Axle Design tool and shows how to use it. The download consists of a PDF file and a Rubicon Toolbox project file (.rtf file) with example data. Please note that there is a new version (version 2) of this tool available which is faster and is now the preferred tool to use for routine design.
Finite Element Accuracy Info
This document deals with the accuracy and recommended use of the Rubicon Toolbox Finite Element module. The document is intended to provide guidance to users about the strengths and limitations of the model, and to provide general guidance on how the Finite Element model can best be used to analyze pavement designs.
