Advanced Techniques in Smart Road Construction and Maintenance: Multi-Scale Characterization and Real-Time Performance Evaluation
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 549
Special Issue Editors
Interests: long-life pavement structure design theory and methods; high-performance pavement materials; pavement service performance; pavement digital twins; intelligent road construction and maintenance
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Interests: Long-term performance of asphalt pavement; fatigue performance; reclaimed asphalt pavement; bio-oil modified asphalt; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart roads represent new infrastructure that integrates traditional roads with next-generation information technologies. The growing demand for smart and safe travel presents new challenges for road infrastructure. Throughout the service life of asphalt pavements, factors such as construction quality, traffic loads, and environmental conditions complicate the accurate extraction and integration of performance data. These complex service environments also affect the behavior of asphalt pavements, reducing their lifespan and potentially leading to functional degradation.
Advanced technologies are essential for characterizing the performance of asphalt pavements and understanding their evolution under complex conditions. Enhancing the resistance of pavement materials to these challenges is crucial. Moreover, accurate condition monitoring and real-time performance evaluation are key to ensuring long-term road serviceability. This Special Issue aims to explore how multi-scale technologies and intelligent methods can analyze the properties of bitumen and asphalt materials, optimize road design, and enable real-time diagnostics, providing essential support for smart road development.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but need not be limited to) the following:
- Intelligent road design and construction;
- Multi-scale analysis of bitumen and asphalt mixtures;
- Smart and multifunctional asphalt mixtures;
- Real-time diagnosis and evaluation;
- Advanced testing technologies for bitumen and asphalt mixtures;
- Embedded sensing systems;
- Service performance of asphalt pavement.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Songtao Lv
Dr. Xinghai Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent road construction
- multifunctional pavement
- real-time diagnosis and evaluation
- environmentally friendly materials
- polymer-modified asphalt
- smart materials and structure
- multi-source data fusion
- embedded sensing systems
- long-life pavement structure
- numerical simulation
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