Professor
Alex BalziLearning objectives
The course focuses on the general criteria regarding the main phases for the management and maintenance of road networks such as monitoring the pavement conditions through the survey and analysis of the failures and the choices of the type of intervention on a technical-economic basis. At the end of the training course the student will have to acquire the basic knowledge for planning road pavement maintenance works and for the design of road arches and intersections.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will have to acquire the skills needed to recognize the damage and state of conservation of road pavements; evaluate the appropriate interventions according to the principles of the Pavement Management System. Furthermore, skills related to the geometric design of road arches and intersections will have to be assimilated
Course content
Survey and analysis of landslides, monitoring and evaluation techniques of the state of conservation of a road pavement, intervention techniques for the restoration of structural and functional performance, recycling techniques and eco-sustainable materials (cold recycling, hot recycling and surface treatments), principles of planning and classification of road networks and geometric characterization of the planimetric-altimetric trend of roads.
Bibliography
Pavement engineering, Principles and Practice, Rajib B. Mallick and Tahar El-Korchi, second edition, 2012.
Pavement Management for Airport, Roads and Parking Lots, Second edition, Shahin MY, 2005.
Roads: Theory and technique of road construction • Vol.1 Design, ed. Pearson edited by Felice Santagata.
Roads: Theory and technique of road construction • Vol.2 Construction, management and maintenance, ed. Pearson edited by Felice Santagata.
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 exam and optional exercise
