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
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
Dawson, A.R,
(2011)
ICE Manual of Highway Design and Management
Tavakoli Mehrjardi G.
(2011)
Geosynthetic reinforcement for the protection of buried pipes beneath pavements
in Proceedings of the 6th International Conferencen on Seismology & Earthquake Engineering
Yue Huang (Co-Author)
(2012)
Importance of co-product allocation method in pavement life cycle assessment
Huang Y
(2012)
Sensitivity analysis of methodological choices in road pavement LCA
in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Carrera A
(2012)
Reusing trench excavation materials as on-site backfill
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management
Casey D
(2012)
Stress Intensity Factors at the Tip of a Surface Initiated Crack Caused by Different Contact Pressure Distributions
in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dawson A
(2012)
Modern Earth Buildings
Tavakoli Mehrjardi G
(2012)
Combined use of geocell reinforcement and rubber-soil mixtures to improve performance of buried pipes
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
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 |