Nikolaides A. Highway Engineering: Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality

CRC Press, 2014. — 823 p.Highway Engineering: Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality covers the basic principles of pavement management, highlights recent advancements, and details the latest industry standards and techniques in the global market. Utilizing the author’s more than 30 years of teaching, researching, and consulting experience, this text focuses on the design, construction, maintenance, and management of pavements for roads and highways, and covers the main topics in highway engineering. The author integrates pavement materials, material testing for acceptability and quality assurance, asphalt mix design, flexible and rigid pavement design, construction, maintenance and strengthening procedures, quality control of production and acceptance of asphalts, pavement evaluation, asphalt plants, and pavement recycling. He also includes both European and American (ASTM and AASHTO) standards and practice, and is extensively illustrated with references, tables, graphs, charts, and photographs.Soils
Aggregates
Bitumen, bituminous binders and anti-stripping agents
Laboratory tests and properties of bitumen and bitumen emulsion
Hot asphalts
Cold asphalts
Fundamental mechanical properties of asphalts and laboratory tests
Production, transportation, laying and compaction of hot mix asphalts
Quality control of production and acceptance of asphalts
Layers of lexible pavement
Methods determining stresses and delections
Trafic and trafic assessment
Flexible pavement design methodologies
Rigid pavements and design methodologies
Pavement maintenance rehabilitation and strengthening
Pavement evaluation and measurement of functional and structural characteristics
Pavement management
Pavement recycling