Highway Engineering: Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality

ISBN-13: 9781138893764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 924 str.

Athanassios (Aristotle University of Thessalonik Nikolaides

Opis

This comprehensive textbook covers all aspects of pavement engineering. The content takes into account new developments and includes both the recently completed European norms and the revised ASTM and AASHTO American standards, as well as some Australian standards. The book is derived from the authors’ experience working as a teacher, researcher, and consultant and technical committee member in Europe and abroad over the last 30 years.

Spis treści

Soils. Aggregates. Bitumen, bituminous binders and anti-stripping agents. Laboratory tests and properties of bitumen and bitumen emulsion. Hot asphalts. Cold asphalts. Fundamental mechanical properties of asphalts and laboratory tests. Production, transportation, laying and compaction of hot mix asphalts. Quality control of production and acceptance of asphalts. Layers of flexible pavement. Methods determining stresses and deflections. Traffic and traffic assessment. Flexible pavement design methodologies. Rigid pavements and design methodologies. Pavement maintenance rehabilitation and strengthening. Pavement evaluation and measurement of functional and structural characteristics. Pavement management. Pavement recycling. References. Index.

O autorze

Dr. Athanassios Nikolaides is a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and director of the Highway Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering. He has published more than 90 papers in journals and conference proceedings, presented more than 40 additional papers at various seminars, and published three books in Greek. He is a member of the editorial advisory panel of the ICE (UK) Journal of Construction Materials, and the founder and president of the International Conference on Bituminous Mixtures and Pavements and has served as a consultant to several organizations and corporations in Greece, Europe, and Indonesia.