Eco-Efficient Pavement Construction Materials

ISBN-13: 9780128189818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 422 str.

Fernando Pacheco-Torgal; Serji Amirkhanian; Hao Wang

Spis treści

1. Introduction to eco-efficient pavement construction materials

Part 1: Pavements with recycled waste 2. Utilization of Scrap Plastics in Asphalt Binders 3. Use of Waste Engine Oil in Materials containing Asphaltic Components 4. Microstructure and performance characteristics of cold recycled asphalt mixtures 5. Life-Cycle Assessment of Asphalt Pavement Recycling

Part 2: Pavements for climate change mitigation 6. Cool pavements 7. Optical and thermal properties of reflective coatings for high albedo pavement 8. Influence of ageing on the performance of cool coatings

Part 3: Self-Healing pavements 9. Self-healing property and road performance of asphalt binder and asphalt mixture containing microcapsule 10. Self-healing biomimetic microvascular containing oily rejuvenator for prolonging life of bitumen 11. Self-healing pavements using microcapsules containing rejuvenator: From idea to real application 12. Novel magnetically-induced healing in road pavements

Part 4: Pavements with energy harvesting potential and vehicle power charging ability 13. Thermoelectric technologies for harvesting energy from pavements 14. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Pavement 15. Electrified road systems for sustainable road transport

O autorze

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects. Dr. Serji Amirkhanian is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. He was the Mays Professor of Transportation and the Director of the Asphalt Rubber Technology Services (ARTS) in the Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University until June of 2010, before he started his international consulting activities. He is also an Adjunct Research Faculty at UNLV and an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). In addition, he is an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras (India) and a professor of Civil Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China). Dr. Amirkhanian started his teaching career in 1987 at Clemson University. The total dollar amount of his research and teaching the DOT certification courses contracts exceeded $25 million. His research has resulted in over 250 refereed journal papers, conference papers and research reports. He has also published two book chapters. In addition, he has conducted over 200 presentations around the country and the world presenting his research findings. Hao Wang is Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rutgers University, USA. Erik Schlangen, is a Professor in the chair of Experimental Micromechanics at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands