Incorporating Sustainable and Resilience Approaches in Asphalt Pavements
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2022) | Viewed by 7923
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable transport infrastructures; bituminous materials; self-healing construction materials; pavement recycling; resilient pavements; waste materials
Interests: alternative paving materials; microstructure and numerical modeling in pavement; mechanical property analysis and measurements; advanced materials and structures; failure analysis; fracture mechanics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: asphalt recycling; sustainable pavement; rubber-modification of asphalt pavements; pavement management system; balanced mix design; asphalt binder/mixture characterization; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The efforts of highway agencies are moving toward modern technologies and smart materials that increase pavement service life and decrease the infrastructure construction and maintenance costs. Accordingly, essential developments are achieved in the material technology and maintenance approaches for road, airfield, and port infrastructures.
On the other hand, recycling techniques for asphalt pavements continue to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and help reduce the exploitation of natural resources and deduct the amount of waste material in the environment. The incorporation of novel materials and technologies (e.g., self-healing materials, phase change materials, mechanomutable materials, etc.) into the asphalt pavements helps to construct a more durable road and reduces costs and adverse environmental issues.
Generally, it can be deduced from the global trends of pavement engineering research and development that there is a need to follow the sustainability concepts. Although sustainability concepts are not new and have often been incorporated unsystematically, they should be quantified and introduced into organized procedures in pavement engineering works.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Incorporating Sustainable and Resilience Approaches in Asphalt Pavements”, which aims to gather a series of high-quality articles related to sustainable and resilience aspects of asphalt pavements. Submitted articles can target different fields including but not limited to the following:
- Asphalt pavement design and analysis;
- Asphalt pavement recycling techniques (cold and hot recycling);
- The use of waste materials in asphalt mixtures;
- Smart materials and techniques (e.g., self-healing materials, phase change materials, mechanomutable materials, energy harvesting);
- Asphalt pavement monitoring and nondestructive testing (NDT);
- Pavement condition evaluation and management;
- Environmental assessment of asphalt pavements (emission and leaching measurements);
- Rheological and microstructural analysis of asphalt binders;
- Stabilizing granular layers with different agents, such as hydraulic binders, asphalt emulsion etc.;
- Sustainability/durability assessment of asphalt pavements;
- Climates change and asphalt pavement resilience;
- Asphalt binder modification;
- Asphalt mixture quality certification;
- Balanced mix design;
- Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) of asphalt pavement;
- Semi-flexible pavements;
- Novel surfacing materials;
- Skid resistance of asphalt pavements;
- Balanced mix design (BMD);
- Embedded monitoring systems (embedded fiber sensor);
- Accelerated pavement testing (APT);
- Asphalt binder rheology
Prof. Dr. Pooyan Ayar
Dr. Augusto Cannone Falchetto
Dr. Hamed Majidifard
Dr. Xiaolong Zou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- asphalt mixture
- asphalt pavement
- sustainability assessment
- reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP)
- warm mix asphalt (WMA)
- cold mix asphalt
- smart materials
- pavement maintenance system
- life-cycle assessment (LCA)
- waste materials
- modified asphalt binders
- rejuvenators
- soil stabilization
