Pavement Construction: Material Characterization and Durability Analysis, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2026) | Viewed by 799
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Interests: design, construction and operation and maintenance of smart roads; theory and methods of long-life pavement structure design; high-performance pavement materials; perception, interpretation, diagnosis, evaluation and prediction of road performance
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Interests: pavement materials and mechanics; intelligent material and structure design; big-data solutions for pavement resilience improvements
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Interests: concrete pavement design and performance evaluation; preservation and rehabilitation of rigid pavement; forensic investigations of concrete pavement deterioration mechanisms
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Interests: construction materials; pavement design; road maintainance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pavements have been a hot topic of research for a long time. To make sure that pavements are safe and durable, ever-more scholars are focusing on advanced materials and their properties' performance. Accordingly, advanced characterization technologies are often used to analyze materials including asphalt, recycled materials, concretes, etc.
Furthermore, novel durable pavement construction techniques have been developed, such as structure design, prediction model, and finite element modeling techniques.
To further promote the development of pavement construction, this Special Issue, entitled "Pavement Construction: Material Characterization and Durability Analysis, 2nd Edition", invites papers on the following topics:
- Advanced pavement materials;
- Characterization techniques;
- Pavement design;
- Pavement construction;
- Safety and durability;
- Strength and fatigue life.
Prof. Dr. Songtao Lv
Dr. Lingyun You
Dr. Wujun Zhou
Dr. Wenyao Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced materials of pavements
- characterization techniques
- pavement design
- pavement construction
- safety and durability
- strength and fatigue life
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