Materials, Structures and Designs for Durable Roads
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 342
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction materials; paving materials; bituminous materials; cement; composite materials; thermal plastic materials
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Interests: pavement mechanics; sustainable road materials; foamed and emulsified asphalt; analytical solution; finite element approach; molecular dynamics
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Interests: pavement engineering; discrete element modelling (DEM); multiscale modelling; pavement compaction; pavement functional behavior
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: highway engineering; pavement engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The smartness and resilience of infrastructure are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. As important components of infrastructure, roads play an important role in achieving the goal of the entire infrastructure system. The large-scale construction of transportation infrastructure has increased the demand for its sustainability. Currently, road construction bears important responsibilities for the use of natural resources and energy, the generation of waste, the emission of greenhouse gases, and the intensification of urban heat island effects. At the same time, the aging and wear phenomenon of road materials will lead to a reduction in service life and further consumption of resources and energy. To reduce the negative effects, road structures need to be smarter and more durable. For example, as asphalt mixture is the most commonly used road material, improving the durability of asphalt pavement is an important goal in this regard. To obtain this enhanced durability and sustainability, in the past few decades, certain smart admixtures have been developed to make this material more intelligent. Thermochromic materials have been used in asphalt due to the advantages of the dynamic conversion of optical and thermal properties, which reversibly change color according to temperature, thereby dynamically adjusting the reflectivity of the asphalt to solar radiation. Ultraviolet-blocking materials can enhance the anti-ultraviolet aging ability of asphalt. Induction heating is used to enhance the engineering healing ability of asphalt mixtures. Warm and cold mixing technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thereby saving energy. Recycling technology and regeneration technology play an important role in realizing long-life pavement structures. In this Special Issue, the latest developments in these smart and durable road surfaces are discussed. The compatibility of smart admixtures with traditional pavement materials and their influence on the properties and structure of pavement materials are considered. It is also critical to simulate the long-life structure formation, the activation of intelligent performance, the service life in a specific environment, and the environmental impact of new durable pavement structures.
The purpose of this Special Issue of Materials is to collect manuscripts on novel materials and innovative technologies for smart and resilient roads. The topics cover, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced functional materials to improve road resilience;
- Intelligent materials that enhance the road environment (smart roads);
- Innovative computational methods to solve road problems;
- High-performance and recycled road materials to enhance durability and sustainability;
- Incorporation of smart road principles into the design of cities;
- Advanced technologies for road construction and maintenance.
Prof. Dr. Xu Yang
Dr. Lingyun You
Dr. Chonghui Wang
Prof. Dr. Mohd Rosli Hainin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transportation infrastructures
- sustainable materials
- durable structures
- smart and resilient roads
- multiscale modeling
- road resilience
