Research on Performance of Pavement Concrete
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 1908
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pavement concrete; concrete sustainability; concrete pavement performance; concrete durability; accelerated testing of pavement; mass concrete
Interests: sustainable construction engineering; transportation; renewable energy; public works
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Dear Colleagues,
The world is facing severe climate change, including extreme heat and severe flooding, adversely affecting our roadway system. Concrete pavements have been shown from research findings to be much more resilient to extreme heat and severe flooding compared with asphalt pavements. Pavement concrete has traditionally been designed based on compressive strength or flexural strength. However, concrete pavements with similar concrete strengths and similar slab thicknesses can have widely variable performances. Some concrete pavements have been in service for over fifty years and are still in excellent condition, while other concrete pavements using concrete with adequate strength have failed prematurely. Past research on concrete pavement performance has shown that its performance depends on the combination of various pertinent concrete properties, in addition to adequate strength.
This Special Issue will present findings of research on the performances of pavement concretes affected by various pertinent concrete properties, such as the coefficient of thermal expansion, elastic modulus, drying shrinkage, and thermal conductivity. The dissemination of this important knowledge will help us to design optimum pavement concrete for use in resilient concrete pavements in the context of severe global climate change.
We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Resilient concrete pavement under severe flooding;
- Resilient concrete pavement under extreme heat;
- Field evaluation of concrete pavement;
- Laboratory testing of pavement concrete;
- Modeling of behavior of concrete pavement under severe weather;
- Accelerated testing of concrete pavement;
- Durability of pavement concrete.
Prof. Dr. Mang Tia
Prof. Dr. Fazil Najafi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pavement concrete
- coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE)
- resilient modulus
- concrete pavement performance
- drying shrinkage
- finite element modeling
- durability
- severe flooding
- extreme heat
- accelerated pavement testing
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