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Recent Developments in Pavement Engineering

Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

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  • Includes how to adapt the pavements with the climate change
  • Focuses on research advances
  • Discusses field experience through case studies
  • Covers the latest research of highly reputed experts from all over the globe

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
  2. Investigation on the Use of Crumb Rubber and Bagasse Ash in Road Construction

    • M. Patil Akshay, Anand B. Tapase, Y. M. Ghugal, B. A. Konnur, Shrikant Dombe
    Pages 1-12
  3. General Procedure for Pavement Maintenance/Rehabilitation Decisions Based on Structural and Functional Indices

    • Hossam S. Abd El-Raof, Ragaa T. Abd El-Hakim, Sherif M. El-Badawy, Hafez A. Afify
    Pages 13-24
  4. Performance Analysis of Overlays for Flexible Pavement

    • Ragaa Abd El-Hakim, Mustatfa A. K. Abd El-Ghaffar, Mohamed El-Shabrawy M. Ali, Hafez A. Afify
    Pages 25-41
  5. Quantifying Effects of Urban Heat Islands: State of the Art

    • Ragaa Abd El-Hakim, Sherif El-Badawy
    Pages 42-69
  6. Investigation on the Use of E-Waste and Waste Plastic in Road Construction

    • Shrikant Dombe, Anand B. Tapase, Y. M. Ghugal, B. A. Konnur, Patil Akshay
    Pages 85-99
  7. Behavior of Unpaved Roads Under Different Conditions

    • Adelino Ferreira, M. I. M. Pinto, Arminda Almeida, Natacha Rodrigues
    Pages 100-106
  8. Pavement Performance Evaluation and Maintenance Decision-Making in Rwanda

    • Li Bo, Marie Judith Kundwa, Cui Yu Jiao, Zhu Xu Wei
    Pages 107-116
  9. ANN-Based Fatigue and Rutting Prediction Models Versus Regression-Based Models for Flexible Pavements

    • Mostafa M. Radwan, Mostafa A. Abo-Hashema, Hamdy P. Faheem, Mostafa D. Hashem
    Pages 117-133
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 135-135

About this book

This book brings together scientific experts in different areas that contribute to the design, analysis, and performance of sustainable pavements.  This book also contributes to transportation engineering challenges and solutions, evaluate the state of the art, identify the shortcomings and opportunities for research, and promote the interaction with the industry. In particular, scientific topics that are addressed in this book include the use of different waste and recycled materials to improve pavement performance, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, urban heat island due to transportation infrastructure and its mitigation techniques, machine learning applications in the prediction of pavement distresses, and analysis of pavement overlay.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Sherif Badawy

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Dar-Hao Chen

About the editors

Sherif El-Badawy is associate professor at Mansoura University, Egypt. He serves as the director of Highway and Airport Engineering Laboratory, Director of the Center of Scientific, Experimental, and Technical Services, Mansoura University. He received a BSc degree with honor in Civil Engineering and MSc from Mansoura University, Egypt. Dr. El-Badawy pursued his PhD Degree at Arizona State University (ASU), USA in 2006. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at ASU from June 2006 until July 2007 and as a Research Fellow at University of Idaho from December 2009 until January 2012. He has more than 20 years of experience in pavement structural analysis, design and characterization. Dr. El-Badawy has participated in several state and national projects during his employment in the US. He was one of the team members under Professor Witczak in the NCHRP 1-37A and 1-40D Projects which focused on the development of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). He serves asa TRB Committee Member on Flexible Pavement Design (AFD60) since April, 2012. He is an elected board member of the Middle East Society of Asphalt Technologists (MESAT), a member of the International Geosynthetic Society (IGS), Transportation and Traffic Society (TTS), International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), and Chi-Epsilon Honor Society. He developed and taught many undergraduate and postgraduate course in USA and Egypt. His research interest focuses on pavement material characterization and modeling, Mechanistic-Empirical pavement design methods, and traffic characteristics. Dr. EL-Badawy was the Chief Editor of the ASCE GPS “Innovative Technologies for Severe Weathers and Climate Changes”.  Through research and graduate advising, he published more than 70 technical publications and reports. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Developments in Pavement Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

  • Editors: Sherif Badawy, Dar-Hao Chen

  • Series Title: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34196-1

  • 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 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34195-4Published: 02 November 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34196-1Published: 01 November 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2366-3405

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-3413

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXV, 135

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Civil Engineering, Sustainability Management

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