Sustainable Materials for Asphalt Pavements
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-performance asphalt; energy-saving technologies; use of recycled materials in pavements
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Interests: pavement material; pavement sustainability; artificial intelligence; pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, sustainable asphalt pavement materials have been used to reduce environmental impacts and improve road durability. These materials include warm mix asphalt, rubber-modified asphalt, bio-based polymers, and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) materials. They support the construction of green and low-carbon road infrastructure by reducing production energy consumption, enhancing pavement performance, and reducing resource consumption and waste emissions. At the same time, the sustainability of asphalt pavements also depends on breakthroughs in sustainable research on these materials. In order to build high-quality, environmentally friendly, and long-lasting road projects, researchers expect road materials to be low-cost, high-performance, and have the potential for sustainable development. This Special Issue will provide noteworthy experimental and/or numerical investigations or case studies on the sustainability of asphalt pavement materials, such as the following:
- Applications of waste materials in asphalt pavements, such as waste polymers, waste building materials, etc.
- Applications of bio-based materials in asphalt pavements.
- Recycling of asphalt pavement materials.
- Eco-friendly asphalt pavements and materials.
- Low-energy asphalt pavement materials.
- Long-life asphalt pavements.
- Self-healing asphalt pavement materials.
- Preparation and characterization of sustainable asphalt pavement materials.
- Molecular dynamic studies of sustainable road materials.
- Engineering applications of sustainable asphalt pavement materials.
- Life cycle assessments of asphalt pavements.
- Durability of asphalt pavement materials, etc.
Prof. Dr. Zengping Zhang
Dr. Runhua Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- asphalt
- sustainability
- waste materials
- bio-based materials
- engineering
- recycling
- life cycle assessment
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