Pavement Performance: Materials, Structures and Fatigue Evaluation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 2493
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pavement performance evaluation; pavement performance measurement; experimental characterization; paving materials
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Interests: civil engineering; microstructure; pavement engineering; viscoelasticity; materials mechanics; material characterizatio
Interests: microstructure and performance of pavement materials; GPU-based parallel computing of granular materials; polymer-modified asphalt binder; climate and disaster risk assessment of road facilities; testing instrument and software development
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Interests: environmentally friendly cementitious materials; interface performance of asphalt and aggregate; micro nano characterization; amorphous solids
Interests: asphalt pavement; anti-icing coating on pavement; superhydrophobic coating
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pavements are an important component of highways, airports, and ports. The evaluation of pavement performance is crucial for assessing its ability to support traffic over time and to determine maintenance and rehabilitation strategies. Moreover, materials performance evaluation seeks to advance the technology and tools used for the evaluation, testing, specification, mixture proportioning, and optimization of the materials used in the construction, preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of highways. There are a broad range of paving materials, including traditional materials—asphalt, Portland cement concrete, and aggregate—as well as recycled, reused, new, or innovative materials.
We invite researchers from across the world to contribute original research articles as well as review articles on the evaluation of pavement and materials performance. Suggested topics related to this Special Issue include the following:
- Pavement performance evaluation:
- Visual condition surveys (flexible and rigid pavements);
- Non-destructive evaluation of the functional properties of pavements (roughness and skid resistance);
- Non-destructive evaluation of the structural properties of pavements (e.g., Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD), Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP), Air-coupled Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Ground-coupled Penetrating Radar (GPR), seismic evaluation tools, and Total Pavement Acceptance Device (TPAD));
- Destructive evaluation of the structural properties of pavements;
- Geotechnical investigations of pavement structures.
- Innovative approaches to pavement analysis and design;
- Performance models of flexible and rigid pavements;
- Constitutive modeling and experimental characterization of pavement materials (asphalt binder, aggregates, asphalt mixes, cementitious materials and Portland cement concrete, unstabilized and stabilized bases, and subgrade soils);
- Numerical response analysis of pavements under static and dynamic wheel loading and climatic conditions;
- Experimental characterization and modeling of permanent deformation, fatigue cracking, low-temperature cracking, and moisture damage in pavement layers;
- Microstructure characterization and micromechanics of asphalt concrete, cementitious materials, and Portland cement concrete;
- Modeling the behavior of pavement materials in mixing, laboratory and field compaction, and service.
Prof. Dr. Miao Yu
Prof. Dr. Yu Liu
Dr. Changhong Zhou
Prof. Dr. Fu Xu
Dr. Chao Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pavement performance evaluation
- pavement modeling
- experimental characterization
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