New Frontiers in Sustainability of Pavement System
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 273
Special Issue Editor
Interests: asphalt materials; pavement engineering; cold-mix asphalt; hot-mix asphalt; numerical modeling; constitutive model; nonlinear viscoelasticity; viscoplasticity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pavement infrastructure plays an important role for the development of economy and social activity of each country. With the grouth of a country, the maintenance and rehabilitation are required for the constructed pavement systems to retain acceptable riding quality and safety. In recent years, researchers, technicians and governments have focused on the solutions for achieving the sustainability of pavement system. The sustainable pavement system is integrated by many critical issues including sustainable pavement materials, the analysis of pavement life cycle, numerical simulation of pavement structure, long-term estimation and measurement of pavement performance, strategy of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, etc. Hence, the aim of this special issue is to provide a platform for collecting recent state-of-the-art advancements of sustainable solutions to be implemented in the pavement system around the world. We would like to invite you to submit your novel papers to the Special Issue entitled “New Frontiers in Sustainability of Pavement System” of Sustainability. We encourage authors to submit their significant researches focus on the sustainable pavement materials, pavement life cycle assessment, pavement life cycle cost assessment, pavement numerical modeling and long-term performance of pavement. Case studies of field performance measurements over time and the technology of nondestructive test and analysis in the field are also welcomed.
Possible topics for the contributions include but not limited to the following:
- Sustainable pavement materials (e.g., asphalt binder, concrete, aggregate, soil, CLSM, etc.)
- Reclaimed asphalt pavement
- Reclaimed pavement material
- Numerical simulation of pavement structure
- Long-term performance (distress) estimation of pavement
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Life cycle cost assessment (LCCA)
- Sustainable strategy of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
Prof. Dr. Chien Wei Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable pavement materials
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- life cycle cost assessment (LCCA)
- numerical modeling
- pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
- long-term performance prediciton
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