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Advances in Road Pavements

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 1037

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Emanuele Toraldo

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: pavement design; construction materials; surface treatments; pavement behavior modelling; urban pavements; pavement sustainability; pavement monitoring; pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
Dr. Misagh Ketabdari

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: pavement design; construction materials; surface treatments; pavement behavior modelling; urban pavements; pavement sustainability; pavement monitoring; pavement maintenance and rehabilitation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Roads play a crucial role in the development of countries and the quality life of their citizens, which is why this Special Issue aims to explore recent advances in road pavement research, addressing key challenges and opportunities in the field. Despite being a fundamental part of transportation infrastructures, road pavements face ongoing challenges related to durability, sustainability, and performance under varying environmental conditions. This Special Issue seeks to address these challenges by showcasing innovative research and technological advancements in road pavements science and engineering.

We invite original contributions describing new research, case studies, projects, reviews and state-of-the-art discussions on the following and related topics:

  • Advancements in pavement design;
  • Novel construction methods and materials;
  • Pavement-related safety issues;
  • Innovative surface treatments;
  • Pavement behavior modelling and simulation;
  • New mobility challenges in urban pavement design;
  • Pavement surface characteristics and ride quality;
  • Sustainable approaches in pavement design;
  • Pavement monitoring methods;
  • New maintenance and rehabilitation techniques and technologies.

This Special Issue will appeal to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of civil engineering, materials science, transportation engineering, and infrastructure management. The insights presented in this Special Issue will be valuable for professionals involved in the design, construction, and maintenance of asphalt pavements.

Dr. Emanuele Toraldo
Dr. Misagh Ketabdari
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • pavement design
  • construction materials and methods
  • pavement related safety issues
  • surface treatments
  • pavement behavior modelling
  • urban pavements
  • pavement sustainability
  • pavement surface characteristics and ride quality
  • pavement monitoring, maintenance and rehabilitation
  • laboratory and field performance tests

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Effects of Wetting–Drying Cycles on the Macro and Micro Properties of the Cement-Stabilized Soil with Curing Agent
by Wenjun Hu, Kun Li, Wenhao Yin, Han Zhang, Yi Xue, Yutong Han and Pingyun Liu
Buildings 2024, 14(6), 1716; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14061716 - 7 Jun 2024
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Cement-stabilized soil is a commonly used pavement base/bottom base material. Adding a suitable curing agent to cement-stabilized soil can effectively reduce the dosage of cement, meet the strength requirements, and also greatly improve its water stability. In this paper, three kinds of cement [...] Read more.
Cement-stabilized soil is a commonly used pavement base/bottom base material. Adding a suitable curing agent to cement-stabilized soil can effectively reduce the dosage of cement, meet the strength requirements, and also greatly improve its water stability. In this paper, three kinds of cement dosage (6%, 8%, and 10%) of cement-stabilized soil were selected to add a 0.04% organic liquid curing agent, and then compared with high-dose cement (10% and 12%)-stabilized soil. The influence of wetting–drying cycles on the mechanical properties of the five stabilized soils was discussed. The mineral composition of cement-stabilized soils before and after the addition of a curing agent was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the microscopic morphology of 10% cement-stabilized soils with a curing agent was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The macroscopic test shows that the unconfined compressive strength of solidified cement-stabilized soil can be divided into three stages with the increase in the times of the wetting–drying cycles, which are the rapid decay stage, stable enhancement stage, and stable decay stage. The wetting–drying stability coefficient first increases, and then decreases with the increase in the times of the wetting–drying cycles. The microscopic test shows that the addition of a curing agent can enhance the content of hydration products in the cement-stabilized soil specimen; at the curing age of 28 d, with the increase in the times of the wet–dry cycles, the structure of the solidified cement-stabilized soil gradually broke down. The surface porosity P and pore diameter d showed an overall upward trend but decreased at the fifth wetting–drying cycle. The pore orientation weakened. The results show that the resistance of cement-stabilized soil with a curing agent is obviously better than that of cement-stabilized soil under wet–dry conditions. Full article
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Advanced Recycling of Modified EDPM Rubber in Bituminous Asphalt Paving
by Daniela Laura Buruiana, Lucian Puiu Georgescu, Gabriel Bogdan Carp and Viorica Ghisman
Buildings 2024, 14(6), 1618; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14061618 - 1 Jun 2024
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One of the environmental problems worldwide is the enormous number of surgical masks used during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the measures imposed by the World Health Organization on the mandatory use of masks in public spaces. The current study is a potential [...] Read more.
One of the environmental problems worldwide is the enormous number of surgical masks used during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the measures imposed by the World Health Organization on the mandatory use of masks in public spaces. The current study is a potential circular economy approach to recycling the surgical masks discarded into the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic for use in bituminous asphalt pavement. FTIR analysis showed that the surgical masks used were made from ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber modified with polypropylene. The effects of the addition of surgical masks in bituminous asphalt on the performance of the base course were demonstrated in this study. The morphology and elemental composition of the bituminous asphalt pavement samples with two ratios of surgical mask composition were investigated by SEM-EDX and the performance of the modified bituminous asphalt pavement was determined by Marshall stability, flow rate, solid–liquid ratio, apparent density, and water absorption. The study refers to the technological innovation of using surgical masks in the formulation of AB 31.5 bituminous asphalt base course, which brings tremendous benefits to the environment by reducing the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Full article
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