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
Qiao Y
(2013)
Examining Effects of Climatic Factors on Flexible Pavement Performance and Service Life
in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
S.N. Moghaddas Tafreshi (Author)
(2011)
Laboratory tests of footings supported on geotextile-reinforced sand under repeated loading
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
Tafreshi S
(2010)
Behaviour of footings on reinforced sand subjected to repeated loading - Comparing use of 3D and planar geotextile
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Tafreshi S
(2012)
Buried Pipes in Rubber-Soil Backfilled Trenches under Cyclic Loading
in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Tavakoli Mehrjardi G
(2012)
Combined use of geocell reinforcement and rubber-soil mixtures to improve performance of buried pipes
in Geotextiles and Geomembranes
Tavakoli Mehrjardi G.
(2011)
Influence of Geocell reinforcement on damping properties of trench with pipe
in Proc. 15th Eur. Conf. Soil Mech. & Geotechnical Eng'g., Geotechnics of Hard Soils - Weak Rocks, Athens, Greece; ed. Anagnostopoulos, A., Pachakis, M. & Tsatsanifos, C
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
Tony Parry (Co-Author)
(2011)
Collecting Transport Information using smartphone apps
Yaning Qiao (Author)
(2013)
Quantifying the effect of climate change on the deterioration of a flexible pavement
| 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 |