Pavement Technology 2

Asphalt materials and binders, asphalt mixture design, distress mechanisms, stress/strain analyses, mechanistic structural design methods, bearing capacity, strengthening/rehabilitation, tire/surface interaction, pavement management, winter maintenance.

Knowledge:

• Pavement materials with main focus on asphalt
• Asphalt binders and mix design methods
• Structural design methods for pavements
• Interaction between tires and pavement surface
• Recycling of pavement materials
• Condition survey of pavements
• Management of pavement structures
• Winter maintenance

Skills:

• Evaluation of strength and deformation properties of pavement materials
• Make a professional and sustainable choice of asphalt binder
• Use different methods to perform asphalt mix design
• Perform mechanistic structural design of roads to withstand traffic and climatic loads
• Be able to plan and evaluate condition surveys, and based on this, plan rehabilitation and maintenance measures
• Understand winter challenges and plan measures for effective winter maintenance of roads

General competence:

• Use advanced Excel analyses for modeling of material behavior
• Perform reasonable and sustainable material choices for different pavement layers/elements
• Perform structural design of pavements to withstand today's and future changes of climate and traffic
• Perform and evaluate condition measurements and plan ordinary pavement management and winter measures

Lectures combined with individual and group exercises. A laboratory course is included. The lectures are in English when non-Norwegian speaking students follow the course. Exercises are given in both Norwegian and English, if needed.