Pavement and Rail Track Engineering
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Civil Engineering
Abstract
This grant will allow the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC), formerly known as the Nottingham Centre for Pavement Engineering (NCPE), to continue to undertake a wide range of research-led initiatives in pavement and rail track engineering. These are critical infrastructure areas for the UK economy and quality of life and represent a combined asset value of some 620 billion with an annual expenditure in the region of 6 billion.In this proposal, particular emphasis is placed on the development of Highway Asset Management as a research theme and the continued development of Physicochemical Interactions and Sustainable Construction through multidisciplinary research links with areas such as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Materials Science and Economics to exploit research at the boundaries between these disciplines and pavement and rail track engineering.
Publications
Airey G
(2011)
Rheology of polyacrylate binders produced via catalytic chain transfer polymerization as an alternative to bitumen in road pavement materials
in European Polymer Journal
Tafreshi S
(2010)
Comparison of bearing capacity of a strip footing on sand with geocell and with planar forms of geotextile reinforcement
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Tavakoli Mehrjardi G
(2012)
Combined use of geocell reinforcement and rubber-soil mixtures to improve performance of buried pipes
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Tafreshi S
(2010)
Behaviour of footings on reinforced sand subjected to repeated loading - Comparing use of 3D and planar geotextile
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Moghaddas Tafreshi S
(2011)
Reply to the discussions by Huang, C.C. on "Comparison of bearing capacity of a strip footing on sand with geocell and with planar forms of geotextile reinforcement" [Geotextiles and Geomembranes 28(1), 2010, pp. 72-84]
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Moghaddas Tafreshi S
(2012)
A comparison of static and cyclic loading responses of foundations on geocell-reinforced sand
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Grenfell J
(2012)
Optimising the moisture durability SATS conditioning parameters for universal asphalt mixture application
in International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Byrne M
(2013)
A generalised approach to outlier identification in pavement condition data
in International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Tafreshi S
(2012)
Buried Pipes in Rubber-Soil Backfilled Trenches under Cyclic Loading
in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Hall M
(2012)
Influence of the Thermophysical Properties of Pavement Materials on the Evolution of Temperature Depth Profiles in Different Climatic Regions
in Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnership KTP008700 |
Amount | £91,508 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2011 |
End | 07/2013 |
Description | PhD Exchange Agreement - VT |
Organisation | Virginia Tech |
Department | Transportation Institution |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The agreement covers the exchange of PhD students between NTEC and VTTI. |
Collaborator Contribution | The agreement covers the exchange of PhD students between NTEC and VTTI. |
Impact | The PhD students involved in these exchanges, develop networks and links with VTTI which are beneficial both to their work and their personal development. |
Start Year | 2011 |