Road Engineering Materials: Composition, Structures and Performance
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 2251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-performance asphalt; energy-saving technologies; use of recycled materials in pavements
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Dear Colleagues,
Road engineering materials have long been an important research topic, and as such, various materials are currently used to engineer roads, including asphalt, cement, bio-based materials, nanomaterials, and waste materials, whose performance determines the level of the road’s service. The development of road engineering depends on breakthroughs in the research of these road materials. In order to build high-quality and high-level road projects, researchers aim to develop road materials that have the advantages of low cost and high performance, as well as sustainable potential. This Special Issue will provide noteworthy experimental and/or numerical investigations into or case studies on the research of road materials, including, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
- Preparation and characterization of road materials;
- Molecular dynamics studies of road materials;
- Engineering applications of road materials.
- Asphalt materials;
- Asphalt mixture;
- Cement concrete;
- Polymer materials in road engineering;
- Waste materials in road engineering;
- Bio-based materials in road engineering;
- Nanomaterials in road engineering materials; etc.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Zengping Zhang
Dr. Zhengxiang Mi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road engineering materials
- asphalt
- cement
- bio-based materials
- nanomaterials
- waste materials
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