Effectiveness of heat-reflective asphalt pavements in mitigating urban heat islands: A systematic literature review
December 2024
Urban heat island (UHI) effect is a growing concern in numerous cities worldwide, which increases urban temperatures. Conventional asphalt pavements are a major contributor to the issue, causing environmental...
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Intelligent pavement condition survey: Overview of current researches and practices
September 2024
Automated pavement condition survey is of critical importance to road network management. There are three primary tasks involved in pavement condition surveys, namely data collection, data processing...
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Advances and development trends in eco-friendly pavements
December 2021
The major contemporary in road pavement engineering is related to the creation of green and sustainable infrastructures, e.g., reduction of environmental impacts, increase in traffic safety, and transportation...
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Use of bio-based products towards more sustainable road paving binders: A state-of-the-art review
June 2024
Many industrial sectors exploit fossil sources to develop useful and necessary materials for our needs, such as bituminous paving materials. Bitumen, a key component of asphalt mixtures, is derived...
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Review of advanced road materials, structures, equipment, and detection technologies
December 2023
As a vital and integral component of transportation infrastructure, pavement has a direct and tangible impact on socio-economic sustainability. In recent years, an influx of groundbreaking and state-of-the-art...
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Automation in road distress detection, diagnosis and treatment
March 2024
Road transportation plays a crucial role in society and daily life, as the functioning and durability of roads can significantly impact a nation's economic development. In the whole life cycle of the...
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Predicting pavement condition index based on the utilization of machine learning techniques: A case study
September 2023
Pavement management systems (PMS) are used by transportation government agencies to promote sustainable development and to keep road pavement conditions above the minimum performance levels at a reasonable...
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Fatigue test setups and analysis methods for asphalt mixture: A state-of-the-art review
December 2022
Fatigue performance evaluation on asphalt mixture provides an essential reference for asphalt mixture design and pavement structure design. Laboratory fatigue test has been widely used by researchers...
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A systematic review of rigid-flexible composite pavement
June 2024
Rigid-flexible composite pavement has gained significant popularity in recent decades. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the research progress concerning rigid-flexible composite pavement,...
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A state-of-the-art review of asphalt pavement surface texture and its measurement techniques
June 2022
To understand the research status of asphalt pavement texture, the related achievements and progress of pavement surface texture were systematically sorted out from three aspects: the characterization...
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A review of road 3D modeling based on light detection and ranging point clouds
December 2024
Increasing development of accurate and efficient road three-dimensional (3D) modeling presents great opportunities to improve the data exchange and integration of building information modeling (BIM)...
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Research progresses of fibers in asphalt and cement materials: A review
March 2023
Asphalt mixtures and cement concrete are an important material in the construction of roads, highways and buildings, and there has been a lot of research about the improvement of their performance....
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Low temperature cracking behavior of asphalt binders and mixtures: A review
December 2023
Low temperature cracking (LTC) distress on pavement seriously affects road life. This paper finished a literature review of the research on the mechanism of LTC of asphalt composites (asphalt composites...
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Highway constructions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Challenge, research and practice
March 2022
Highway constructions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) face great challenges induced by the unique local environmental, geological, and engineering conditions. The large area of permafrost, great...
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Pavement skid resistance properties for safe aircraft operations
December 2024
Airport pavement engineers are required to maintain pavement skid resistance at a satisfactory level to minimize the likelihood of runway excursions. Runway overruns and skidding along rapid exit taxiways...
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Review and prospect of four-point bending fatigue test of asphalt mixture
December 2024
Fatigue cracking is one of the principal failure modes of asphalt pavement. The chief factors affecting the fatigue failure of asphalt pavement are load, environment, pavement structure and the fatigue...
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Pavement structure and materials design for sea-crossing bridges and tunnel: Case study of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
June 2022
With the continuous development of bridge and tunnel construction technologies, large-scale sea-crossing bridges and tunnels have gradually become the preferred choice for regional traffic. The construction...
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Bio-based rejuvenators in asphalt pavements: A comprehensive review and analytical study
September 2024
The pressing demand for sustainable advancements in road infrastructure has catalyzed extensive research into environmentally conscious alternatives for the maintenance and restoration of asphalt concrete...
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Texturing and evaluation of concrete pavement surface: A state-of-the-art review
September 2023
Concrete pavement is accompanied by two major functional properties, namely noise emission and friction, which are closely related to pavement surface texture. While several technologies have been developed...
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Review of emulsified asphalt modification mechanisms and performance influencing factors
June 2023
In recent years, with the improvement of the requirements of road performance, modified emulsified asphalts with better performance has gradually replaced the emulsified asphalt and become the primary...
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Review on the properties and mechanisms of asphalt modified with bio-oil and biochar
December 2024
Bio-asphalt has a great application prospect in the replacement of petroleum-based asphalt to pave and maintain asphalt pavement. However, the problems of flow-induced crystallization and phase separation...
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Long-term performance of recycled asphalt mixtures containing high RAP and RAS
March 2024
The application of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and reclaimed asphalt shingles (RAS) on asphalt pavement can reduce the asphalt paving cost, conserve energy and protect the environment. However,...
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A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
March 2023
Although there are many kinds of fracture tests to choose from in evaluating the crack resistance of asphalt mixture, the semi-circular bending (SCB) test has attracted a lot of attention in the academic...
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Review of ultraviolet ageing mechanisms and anti-ageing methods for asphalt binders
June 2022
Asphalt binder is inevitably aged by ultraviolet (UV) light during its service period. UV ageing can significantly decrease the technical properties of asphalt binder. The sensitivity of asphalt to...
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Effect of dual and new generation wide-base tire assembly on inverted pavements
June 2022
The conventional flexible pavements have been constructed such that the stiffness of the layer reduces with depth. The crust thickness becomes significantly high for heavy traffic corridors resulting...
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