Eco-sustainable road construction and techniques

Learning objectives

The course focuses on the general criteria regarding the main phases for the construction of road infrastructures such as the choice and qualification of materials used, the construction of the work and verification tests. At the end of the training course the student will have to acquire the basic knowledge for the structural design of road pavements.

Expected learning outcomes

At the end of the training course the student will have to acquire the basic knowledge for the structural design of road pavements.

Course content

Materials and road construction: Types of pavements, soils, subsurface and embankment construction, stabilization techniques, aggregates, cement mix, foundation layer construction, bitumen and bituminous binders, bituminous conglomerate, the construction of layers in bituminous conglomerate, the mechanical characteristics of the bituminous conglomerate, special wear layers.

Bibliography

Pavement engineering, Principles and Practice, Rajib B. Mallick and Tahar El-Korchi, second edition, 2012;

Hot mix asphalt: materials, mixture design and construction, National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), third edition, 2009;

Road body and pavement, vol. 2, Ferrari and Giannini;

Streets, Vol. 2 – construction, operation and maintenance, Pearson 2016

Single volume for the management and maintenance of road surfaces
edited by Andrea Grilli,
ISBN 979-12-80232-73-1.

Teaching methods and tools

Lectures and classroom exercises

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination