Highways : the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements /
'Highways' is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering. This new edition, written by a team of acknowledged experts in the field, teams up with 'Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering' to become a worthy successor to O'Flaherty's classic 'Hig...
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Oxford :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2002.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. / |
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Table of Contents:
- Road location
- Ground investigations
- Plans, specifications and contracts
- Soils for roadworks
- Materials used in road pavements
- Soil-stabilised pavements
- Surface drainage for roads
- Sub-surface moisture control for road pavements
- Introduction to pavement design
- Earthworks and unbound bases for pavements
- Premixed bituminous-bound courses: Standard materials
- Design and construction of hot-mix bituminous surfacings and roadbases
- Concrete pavement construction
- Current British design practice in relation to bituminous and concrete pavements
- Analytical design of flexible pavements
- Analysis of Stresses in Rigid Concrete Slabs
- Basic road maintenance operations
- Wet Skid Resistance
- Design and usage of surface treatments
- Structural maintenance of roads.