Deterioration and maintenance of pavements

This book is intended for new pavement engineers and focuses on the evaluation and repair of pavements. The author employs an easy-to-follow, colloquial style, white drawing extensively on his years of personal experience. The book is highly accessible and full of examples and case studies providing hands-on, practical guidance relating to a wide range of pavement-types. Hands-on, practical guidance relating to a wide range of pavement-types. Based largely on 40+ years of project experience with examples. Not just confined to successful project experience. Easy-to-follow, colloquial style.

Highway Management. Pavements and their management Footways and walkways. Deterioration of pavements. Pavement Evaluation. Data collection and pavement evaluation Visual distress on pavement surfaces. Traffic loading for rehabilitation design. Construction inventory. Roughness measurements. Skid resistance. Structural condition data collection. Deflection testing by Falling Weight. Deflectometer including analysis and interpretation. Drainage of pavements. Repair and Maintenance of Pavements. Asphalt pavements Unpaved roads. Block paving. Concrete roads. Pavement Design and Strengtheninq. Pavement design. Empirical. Mechanistic-Empirical design principles. Analytical pavement design principles. Analytical design in the UK Strengthening of pavements. Material Aspects. Materials aspects of bituminous composites (asphalts).