Eco-sustainable road construction and techniques

Learning objectives

The course intends to cover the general aspects concerning the main phases for the construction of road infrastructures such as the choice and qualification of the materials used, the construction of the work and the verification tests. At the end of the course the student will have to acquire the basic knowledge for the structural design of roads.

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.

Teaching methods:
Lectures and classroom exercises

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

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Expected results
The student must demonstrate practical sense and knowledge of materials for road use, dimensioning of a road pavement and road construction.