Durable and Sustainable Road Constructions for Developing Countries

This paper discusses the possibilities to build durable and sustainable pavement structures in developing countries. Attention will be paid to geometric design aspects which have a significant effect on pavement life. Following this attention will be paid to the importance of controlling wheel loads rather than axle loads. Also the importance of...

Development of an autonomous setup for evaluating self healing capability of asphalt mixtures

It is a well known fact that asphalt mixtures have self healing capabilities. Yet most of the self healing investigations are carried out using complex and time consuming fatigue tests. In order to investigate the self healing capability in a simple and efficient manner, a beam on elastic foundation test setup (BOEF) is proposed in this paper....

Performance related characterisation of the mechanical behaviour of asphalt mixtures

The investigation was undertaken to support innovations in the field of asphalt pavement design and material selection, and to be able to evaluate or judge the risk of failure and cost-effectiveness of newly developed paving materials in order to justify their application. To be able to determine the risk of failure and cost-effectiveness,...