Sustainable Pavement Engineering with Plastics: From Waste to Performance Materials
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bituminous mixtures design and technologies; circular economy; eco-efficient pavement solutions; life cycle analysis; life cycle cost analysis; materials characterization; multi-recycling capacity of bituminous mixtures; pavement design, modelling and maintenance; pavement materials; pavement performance; reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP); rejuvenation and ageing effects; reflective characteristics of bituminous mixture surface; sustainability; transportation geotechnics; testing and evaluation
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Interests: circular economy; environmental impacts of recycled plastics in construction materials; microplastics: sources, pathways, and environmental fate; life cycle assessment (LCA) of plastic waste valorization; leaching behavior and environmental evaluation of plastic-modified pavements; circular economy approaches to plastic waste management; modelling of plastic dispersion and transport in marine environments
Interests: pavement materials and construction technologies, including innovative technologies and alternative/recycled/sustainable materials; behavior assessment of road and airport pavements; circular economy; extreme weather events; mitigation of climate change effects; life cycle assessment (LCA); greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue, ‘Sustainable Pavement Engineering with Plastics: From Waste to Performance Materials’, of the journal Processes.
The growing environmental burden of plastic waste has catalyzed all over the world, and there is major interest in its valorization within transportation infrastructure applications. In the context of sustainable pavement engineering, plastics offer a promising pathway toward reducing landfill and incinerating waste, conserving natural resources, and improving pavement performance.
This Special Issue on ‘Sustainable Pavement Engineering with Plastics: From Waste to Performance Materials’ invites high-quality original research and review papers that advance the understanding, the transformation of post-consumer and industrial plastic waste into high-performance pavement materials, design, and implementation of plastic-modified pavement systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Maritime and other plastics use;
- Material processing and characterization;
- Mechanical and rheological performance;
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions;
- Durability and long-term behavior;
- Life cycle and environmental assessment;
- Circular economic strategies;
- Impact mitigation measures;
- Field applications of plastic-enhanced pavements.
Dr. Vítor Antunes
Prof. Dr. Hilda de Pablo
Dr. Ana Cristina Freire
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable pavement engineering
- recycled plastics
- circular economy
- waste valorization
- polymer-modified asphalt
- performance materials
- life-cycle assessment
- process optimization
- environmental impact reduction
- infrastructure sustainability
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