Past Software Releases | LASTRADA™

Overview New Features

General:

• Testing program overview, possibility of sorting by sample
• Equipment ID added to equipment overview filter

• Rounding setting “on halves round to even numbers” (Michigan rounding) added to more tests

Asphalt QC:

• Master Data: Asphalt Specification - Control limits and internal limits for filler binder ratio
• Receiving Inspection - Sample selection + Statistics: New filters added
• Binder content by ignition - New data entry field "Mass of container + sample before ignition check [g]" for North Carolina
• Coloring for deviations of (internal) control limits added

Asphalt Declaration:

• New columns and tell Types for the proportion of components in the total mixture [%]

Mix Design:

• Trial Mixes - New test “Binder content by nuclear method”

Binder QC:

• QC & Receiving Inspection - New test added: Cutback Distillation (AASHTO T78)
•  BBR Test - Extension of test result for m-value at S = 300 MPa

Concrete:

•  New unit calculation model (UCM) to meet Canadian CSA standard

Soil:

• Empty or zero values are removed from the sieving and sedimentation curve tab

Overview New Features

Aggregate:

• Assignment to aggregate declarations to a mixing plant- new filter options for declarations to be used in new mixes
  
  

Asphalt:

• New regional settings "North Carolina" and "Alabama"
• Options for entering the total binder content as a target value in declaration blend calculations 

Mix Design:

• Mix Design XML Export- Additional values
• Mix declaration table, New cell types for reporting data of aggregates and reclaimed asphalt

FPC:

• Min limit for stiffness and T-Sweep added 
• New binder test "Torsional Recovery" (Caltrans 332) 
• New binder test "Absolute Viscosity" & "Kinematic Viscosity" 

Overview New Features

General

• Equipment Module – A new copy button to quickly create new records

Sample Management:

• New filter columns were added for quick selection

LASTRADA Mobile:

• Sample management location update using a QR Code and LASTRADA Mobile

Testing Program:

• New module related to the LASTRADA App- Simplified tracking of samples through the laboratory

Scheduler:

• Additional Filters added to the scheduler

Aggregate

• New filtering options without first selecting the mining site
• Sieving loss warnings added to receiving inspection tests

Soil

• Decimal places added to the Water Content in the sieving & sedimentation test
• Atterberg Diagram updated per ASTM D2487 specifications
• New Non-Plastic option

Asphalt

• New Michigan No Sieve Loss added to the receiving inspection dialogue
• New NC regional setting
• New single blend reporting option from declaration

Binder

• New PAV aging min phase angle added in the specification dialogue
• Addition of elevation correction for the Resistance to Hardening test
• Two new binder tests Acid Number and Salt Content
• XRF test added
• New SARA analysis (IATRO SCAN) Test added
• A new select only ASTM methods option
• New reporting option for filtering and grouping tests by parameter sets

Overview New Features

General

• Sieve set definitions can now include sieve diameter.

Testing Program:

• New options to automatically fill in the subcontract number when looking for samples and descriptions added to task planning.

Soil:

• New overview of Soil Tests for selection and data entry

Aggregate:

• New fields for aggregate properties like %chert and deleterious material
• New feature to set and save the sieve/grading type.
• Now documents can be attached to declarations for storing external test reports or completed cert. of compliance,

Asphalt:

• New Florida and Ohio Regional Settings in the asphalt mix design and asphalt declaration
• Imperial Units available for Layer Thickness

Binder:

• New redesign of the Binder Specifications
• New FPC/Specification test selection screen
• New feature Parameter Sets
• New pH Test

Geotechnical

• New feature to compile multiple geotechnical reports into one.

Overview New Features

• • New scheduler email options
  • Illinois DOT MISTIC Aggregate Export
  • New Aggregate reporting capabilities
  • New Asphalt reporting capabilities 
  • New Ontario A/B/R asphalt reporting
  • New Binder DSR data inputs
  • New Binder Test Kinematic Viscosity
  • New Binder reporting capabilities

Aggregates/ Asphalt

Statistics

• • Asphalt/Aggregates Statistics- New feature of Excel export of report

Bitumen

Receiving Inspection

• • New entry fields for sample preparation, sediment, and temperature of sample preparation

FPC

• • New entry fields for Bath liquid

Overview New Features

Mix Design

• • Adding new blends in "local copies" mode is now possible

Receiving Inspection

• • Table "Sample from the Sample Management" (#5C8) can now be embedded in the table "Receiving Inspection Bitumen: Sample data" (#9128)

Test Equipment

• • New calibration interval "18 months" added to the drop-down

Soil

Hydrometer

• • New Hydrometer test per ASTM D422 and AASHTO T88
  • Hydrometer temperature correction added to equipment
  • New soil cell types for both methods
  • New graphs per ATSM and AASHTO standards

Aggregates

FPC

• • Two new stats filters: sampling site and location

Reporting

• • New cell type: sampled by person assigned to a declaration
  • New cell type: carbon equivalency for aggregate statistics
  • New cell types: water content, oversize, undersize, and target size

Concrete

Testing Register

• • Permanently save type test

FPC

• • New remark field in concrete sample
  • New concrete unit control module for working in SI and imperial units
• Reporting
  • New cell type for signature of sampler
    
    

Hot Mix Asphalt

• Mix Design
  • IDEAL-CT transfer specimen ID's between steps
  • New curves for balanced mix design performance space diagram: multiple blends, optimum blend, with 8 total concurrent curves available
  Declaration
  • New plant breakdown analysis*

• Reporting

• • New cell types: sample height left & right, gyrations left & right
  • New binder specification reporting from declaration
  • New weather column type in statistics
  • Added most current declaration date and most current ignition correction date
  • New crushed particle statistics cell types: crushed, totally crushed, crushed fines aggregates, total water absorption
  • Binder specification added to declaration list reports

Binder

FPC 

• • New copy without data feature added to samples for replicate testing
  • Create new sample and copy header data for quick sample creation during QC

General

Administration

• • New permanent remember filters selection added to aggregate and asphalt specifications, asphalt declarations, production, and mix design selections 
  • New testing program leading department cell types

Administration

Contracts

• • New fields in contract selection

Soil

• • Reporting
  • New cell type added to grading table

Aggregates

FPC

• • New row types for Lightweight Contaminators
  • New sieving type added R4/P4, AASHTO T30 separated

Reporting

• • New cell types in aggregate, including sieve names
  • New column types in aggregate declaration
  • New cell types in aggregate statistics
  • New options in aggregate receiving inspection

Hot Mix Asphalt

Master Data

• • New setting in asphalt declaration

• Mix Design  
  • New I-FIT (Fracture Energy) test
  • New performance space diagram
  • New cell types
   Reporting

• • New performance space diagrams: I-FIT and/or IDEAL-CT with HWT

Concrete

 Testing Register

• •     Updates to Concrete Testing Register

Interfaces

• • New button for concrete recipe