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View article: Enhancing the Sustainability of Asphalt Mixtures: A Focus on Operational Factors and Dataset for Environmental Product Declarations
Enhancing the Sustainability of Asphalt Mixtures: A Focus on Operational Factors and Dataset for Environmental Product Declarations Open
The demand for reliable Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) of asphalt mixtures is growing, particularly as they are increasingly used in public road construction tenders across Europe. However, the reliability and comparability of E…
View article: Summary of Rilem Technical Committee TC 279-WMR Activities
Summary of Rilem Technical Committee TC 279-WMR Activities Open
Several alternative paving materials, namely plastic, crumb rubber, steel slag, and construction and demolition waste, were incorporated into the construction of road pavements, highlighting their favorable environmental and economic outco…
View article: Investigating the Ability of Road Specifications to Discriminate the Rutting Behavior of Rubberized Asphalt Mixtures in Italy
Investigating the Ability of Road Specifications to Discriminate the Rutting Behavior of Rubberized Asphalt Mixtures in Italy Open
Despite its worldwide adoption in many countries, rubberized asphalt mixtures are not fully incorporated as an alternative paving material in current Italian road specifications. This reluctance stems from a lack of experience, resistance …
View article: Modelling the Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Performance of Maximizing Asphalt Recycling on Road Pavement Surfaces in Europe
Modelling the Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Performance of Maximizing Asphalt Recycling on Road Pavement Surfaces in Europe Open
The road pavement industry, worldwide, has often shown reluctance in quickly implementing innovative practices; however, in the case of raw material consumption, a cultural change is necessary and, in this sense, sustainability assessment …
View article: Unveiling the Benefits of Engineered Crumb Rubber for Asphalt Mixtures via Performance-Related Characterization: Rutting Behavior
Unveiling the Benefits of Engineered Crumb Rubber for Asphalt Mixtures via Performance-Related Characterization: Rutting Behavior Open
Even though alternative paving materials, like rubberized asphalt, are sometimes present in specifications, these are still not widely adopted from road agencies mainly due to a lack of experience, reticence in changing work habits and, of…
View article: Uncertainty analysis of life cycle assessment of asphalt surfacings
Uncertainty analysis of life cycle assessment of asphalt surfacings Open
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of asphalt pavements are associated with significant uncertainty resulting from variability in the quantity and impact of individual components, the quality of data for each component, and variability of asp…
View article: Rheological Behaviors of Waste Polyethylene Modified Asphalt Binder: Statistical Analysis of Interlaboratory Testing Results
Rheological Behaviors of Waste Polyethylene Modified Asphalt Binder: Statistical Analysis of Interlaboratory Testing Results Open
This article investigated the effect of waste polyethylene (PE) on the modified asphalt binders’ rheological behavior from a statistical point of view. The interlaboratory testing results from the RILEM Technical Committee 279 Valorization…
View article: A Framework for Life Cycle Management of Road Pavements in Europe
A Framework for Life Cycle Management of Road Pavements in Europe Open
Sustainability Assessment (SA) is a standardized practice that is rapidly taking up also in the building sector; however, the transport infrastructure sector is still questioning the best way forward to implement it as a regular practice. …
View article: The 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures
The 1st International Online Conference on Infrastructures Open
Roads are essential for sustainability, the development of resilient transportation networks being one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the UN’s 2030 Agenda. There is a need for new visions to improve the efficiency and resil…
View article: Rubberised stone mastic asphalt mixtures: a performance-related evaluation
Rubberised stone mastic asphalt mixtures: a performance-related evaluation Open
The binder content of rubberised asphalt mixtures is usually increased compared to that used in conventional asphalt. This increase is deemed important to compensate for the reduction in the actual bitumen due to the existence of rubber pa…
View article: Validation of a Novel Sensing Approach for Continuous Pavement Monitoring Using Full-Scale APT Testing
Validation of a Novel Sensing Approach for Continuous Pavement Monitoring Using Full-Scale APT Testing Open
The objective of this paper is to present a novel approach for the continuous monitoring of pavement condition through the use of combined piezoelectric sensing and novel condition-based interpretation methods. The performance of the devel…
View article: A critical review of life cycle assessment benchmarking methodologies for construction materials
A critical review of life cycle assessment benchmarking methodologies for construction materials Open
As it stands, the construction sector accounts for a significant proportion of global emissions. The majority of these emissions can be associated with material production. As a result, the importance of quantifying these environmental imp…
View article: Investigating Tools for Sustainability Assessment of Road Pavements in Europe
Investigating Tools for Sustainability Assessment of Road Pavements in Europe Open
Sustainability assessment (SA) is a method to support decision making processes through the evaluation of system effectiveness, environmental integrity, economic valuation, and social implications [1]. SA can be carried out through the app…
View article: Machine learning techniques to estimate the degree of binder activity of reclaimed asphalt pavement
Machine learning techniques to estimate the degree of binder activity of reclaimed asphalt pavement Open
This paper describes the development of novel/state-of-art computational framework to accurately predict the degree of binder activity of a reclaimed asphalt pavement sample as a percentage of the indirect tensile strength (ITS) using a re…
View article: SMARTI - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure
SMARTI - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure Open
The world’s transport network has developed over thousands of years; emerging from the need of allowing more comfortable trips to roman soldiers to the modern smooth roads enabling modern vehicles to travel at high speed and to allow heavy…
View article: Validation of national empirical pavement design approaches for cold recycled asphalt bases
Validation of national empirical pavement design approaches for cold recycled asphalt bases Open
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View article: Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Volume 1
Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Volume 1 Open
Innovations in Road, Railway and Airfield Bearing Capacity – Volume 1 comprises the first part of contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In anticipation of the event,…
View article: Can crumb rubber modifier effectively replace the use of polymer- modified bitumen in asphalt mixture?
Can crumb rubber modifier effectively replace the use of polymer- modified bitumen in asphalt mixture? Open
Laboratory scale mechanical performances on six plant produced mixtures; three semi-dense surface courses and three dense binder courses modified with engineered crumb rubber (ECR) using the dry process are presented. The two types of mixt…
View article: Rutting analysis of different rubberised stone mastic asphalt mixtures: from binders to mixtures
Rutting analysis of different rubberised stone mastic asphalt mixtures: from binders to mixtures Open
Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) has been broadly used on heavily trafficked roads and motorways in the UK due to its known stability and durability. In this study, several sets of SMA mixtures were produced using different rubberised bitumens, …
View article: Rheological characterisation of cold bitumen emulsion slurries
Rheological characterisation of cold bitumen emulsion slurries Open
The performance of cold bitumen emulsion (CBE) mixtures is strongly linked to an optimised design of the binder blends and mastics. Types and dosages of bitumen, mineral additions and the workability must be characterised and optimised. Th…
View article: Using a hazard-independent approach to understand road-network robustness to multiple disruption scenarios
Using a hazard-independent approach to understand road-network robustness to multiple disruption scenarios Open
A range of predictable and unpredictable events can cause road perturbations, disrupting traffic flows and more generally the functioning of society. To manage this threat, stakeholders need to understand the potential impact of a multitud…
View article: European National Road Authorities and Circular Economy: An Insight into Their Approaches
European National Road Authorities and Circular Economy: An Insight into Their Approaches Open
The pavement engineering industry, having realized the significance of the impacts that it imposes on the environment through the production, construction and management of its products and assets, has been driven towards a more sustainabl…
View article: Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe
Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe Open
Pavement Life Cycle Management is a 2-year international project aiming at supporting European National Road Authorities (NRAs) to introduce sustainability in their practices by providing training on Life Cycle techniques and a user-friend…