1st Edition
Advances in Transportation Geotechnics Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008
786 Pages
by
CRC Press
786 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Highways provide the arteries of modern society. The interaction of road, rail and other transport infrastructure with the ground is unusually intimate, and thus needs to be well-understood to provide economic and reliable infrastructure for society. Challenges include not only the design of new infrastructure (often on problematic ground), but increasingly the management and maintenance of aging... Read more
Preface 1 Keynotes: Innovations in design and construction of granular pavements and railways; Unified constitutive modeling for pavement materials with emphasis on creep, rate and interface behavior; Applications of reinforced soil for transport infrastructure; Recent research on railway track sub-base behaviour; The effect of soil viscosity on the behaviour of reinforced embankments 2 UNBAR 3 Slope instability, stabilisation, and asset management 4 Construction on soft ground 5 Interaction with structures and geogrid reinforced soil 6 Effect of climate change and vegetation 7 Highways, pavements and subgrade 8 Rail 9 Soil improvement 10 Characterisation and recycling of geomaterials
Biography
Ed Ellis, Hai-Sui Yu and Glenn McDowell, Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics, University of Nottingham, UK. Andrew Dawson and Nick Thom, Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
