Pavement Materials and Associated Geotechnical Aspects of Civil Infrastructures

This book contains latest research studies regarding issues related to civil infrastructure such as pavement layers and material properties. It contains research data and conclusions that should lead to more resilient infrastructure design, maintenance and management. Civil engineering researchers and practitioners will gain valuable information from this material. Papers were selected from the 5th GeoChina International Conference on Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes: From Failure to Sustainability, held on July 23-25, 2018 in HangZhou, China.

1.Development and Application of Water-saving and Moisture-retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing.- 2.Characteristics of excavation-induced deformation associated with different propped retaining walls in soft soil.- 3.Slope Stability Analysis of the Embankment Filled with River Sand and Weathered Mudstone Rock.- 4.Investigating Effects of Individual Fracture Length on Behaviour of Weak Rock Using Discrete Element Method.- 5.Numerical analysis of the long-term performance of energy piles in sand.- 6.Effect of material stiffness variation on shakedown solutions of soils under moving loads.- 7.Social Considerations in Selection of Sustainable Pavement Designs.- 8.A cost effective approach towards road construction - Kondave a case study.- 9.Geophysical Properties of Sand-cement-inorganic binder Mixture: Electrical resistivity and elastic wave velocity.- 10.Assessing Benefits of Using Geogridsin Pavements Founded on Problematic Soils.- 11.Measuring Specific Heat Capacity of Pavement Materials.