Overview
- Analytical and experimental studies of paving materials for flexible and rigid pavements
- Energy Efficient and Sustainable paving materials and technologies
- Innovative tools and technologies of subgrade soils and slope improvement
- Case studies and lessons learned from premature slope failures and repair techniques
- Economical analysis of paving systems
Part of the book series: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (SUCI)
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Conference proceedings info: GeoChina 2021.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Musharraf Zaman holds the Aaron Alexander Professorship in Civil Engineering and Alumni Chair Professorship in Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman. He has been serving as the Director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center (SPTC) – a consortium of eight universities in U.S. DOT Region 6 – for more than six years. He served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in OU Gallogly College of Engineering for more than eight years. He is a prolific teacher and a highly accomplished researcher. During his tenure at OU, he has received several prestigious national-level teaching awards from the American Society of Engineering Education. He also received the David Ross Boyd Professorship, the highest life-long teaching award given by OU. During his tenure at OU, he has received more than $30 million in external funding from various state and federal agencies and the industry. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Several of his papers have won prestigious awards from international societies and organizations. He has supervised more than 80 master theses and doctoral dissertations to completion. In 2011, he won the prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award, given by IACMAG, for life-long contributions in geomechanics.
Dr.Jiupeng Zhang is a professor of TransportationInfrastructure Engineering andthevicedean of School of Highwayat Chang’an University, China. He is a professionally registered pavement engineer with a research interest in pavement mechanics, pavement materials, constructionandmaintenance.He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the SoutheastUniversity, China.He has authored andco-authoredmore than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and about 30 referred conference papers,and served as theeditorboardmember of the International JournalofTransportationScienceandTechnology, theChina Journal of Highway and Transport, and the journal of Advances in CivilEngineering. Recently, Dr. Zhang received 8 S&T Awardsfrom Jiangsuprovince,Henan provinceandChina Highway and Transportation Society (CHTS) for his outstanding contributions to paving materials and construction. He won the FokYingTung Youth Teacher Award, the Wufu-Zhenhua Excellent Teacher Award, andthe ShaanxiYouth S&T Nova Awardfor his contributions in transportation infrastructures research, professional service and academic excellence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Finding Solutions of the 21st Century Transportation Problems Through Research and Innovations
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 6th GeoChina International Conference on Civil & Transportation Infrastructures: From Engineering to Smart & Green Life Cycle Solutions -- Nanchang, China, 2021
Editors: Zahid Hossain, Musharraf Zaman, Jiupeng Zhang
Series Title: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79638-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79637-2Published: 15 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79638-9Published: 14 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-3405
Series E-ISSN: 2366-3413
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 149
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering