Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Road Materials
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 57555
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hot and cold recycling; waste materials in bituminous mixtures; clear binders; linear viscoelasticity and damage modeling; orthotropic steel deck pavements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Similarly to many other engineering fields, road pavement industry strongly affects the critical issues of our generation, such as climate change, pollutant emission, exploitation of natural resources, and the economic crisis. For this reason, technicians and researchers are ravenously looking for sustainable solutions to be implemented in the current road construction system, with the goal:
- to reduce the consumption of energy and virgin materials;
- to run environmentally and economically friendly maintenance;
- to recycle wastes from different industrial processes;
- to decrease the noise, the pollution and the heat generated by traffic, particularly in urban contexts.
This Special Issue aims to collect worthy studies that combine the aforementioned solutions dealing with:
- Hot, warm, and cold recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement;
- Marginal materials for asphalt pavements;
- Innovative sustainable materials;
- Durability and environmental aspects;
- Structure performance, modeling, and design;
- Advanced trends in rehabilitation and preservation;
- Surface characteristics and road safety;
- Management system/life cycle analysis;
- Urban heat island mitigation;
- Energy harvesting.
Original papers related to the above topics and also dealing generally with methodologies, case studies, simulations, and experimental testing are welcome.
Thank you for your contributions.
Dr. Edoardo Bocci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable materials
- Recycling
- Environmental impact reduction
- Durability
- Road safety
- Sustainable design and construction
- Sustainable maintenance
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