Contents

    Preface: What is a road pavement? ix

    Authors xiii

    1 How pavements are affected by traffic and weather 1

    2 Early pavements in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece 7

    3 Making pavements using local materials and simple equipment 13

    4 The essential paving properties of soil, sand and stones 27

    5 Paving ways through swamps and bogs 37

    6 Roman pavements -- a major advance in pavement quality and extent 43

    7 Pavement management processes from medieval Europe 51

    8 Trésaguet and Telford lead a pavement renaissance in France and England 59

    9 McAdam invents a major new pavement using broken stones 67

    10 Using masonry methods to produce pavements for heavy traffic 87

    11 The essential paving properties of bitumen, asphalt and cement 99

    12 Three unique pavement engineers -- Metcalf, McAdam and Mountain 105

    13 The first asphalt pavements, produced in 19th-century France and England 113

    14 A new form of pavement using thin, sprayed bituminous surfacings 131

    15 Asphalt paving produced to carry 20th-century truck traffic 137

    16 The design of asphalt pavements -- a predominantly American initiative 151

    17 The 20th-century development of concrete pavements 165

    18 Chemical and physical means of modifying local materials for paving 175

    19 Devices and methods for measuring and evaluating pavement performance 181

    20 Full-scale testing of pavements to validate designs using local materials 207

    21 Possible future pavements, with an emphasis on recycling 229

    22 How pavements could be funded and operated in future years 235

    Timeline 239

    Bibliography 253

    End Notes 269

    Index 291


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    Title :

    Paving our ways : a history of the world's roads and pavements


    Contributors:
    Lay, M. G. (author) / Metcalf, J. B. (author) / Sharp, K. G. (author)

    Edition :

    First edition.


    Publication date :

    2021


    Size :

    1 online resource


    Remarks:

    Campusweiter Zugriff (Universität Hannover) - Vervielfältigungen (z.B. Kopien, Downloads) sind nur von einzelnen Kapiteln oder Seiten und nur zum eigenen wissenschaftlichen Gebrauch erlaubt. Keine Weitergabe an Dritte. Kein systematisches Downloaden durch Robots.




    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    625.809



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