Abstract
This Special Issue “Recent Advances and Future Trends in Pavement Engineering” has been proposed and organized to present recent developments in the field of innovative pavement materials and engineering. For this reason, the articles and state-of-the-art reviews highlighted in this editorial relate to different aspects of pavement engineering, from recycled asphalt pavements to alkali-activated materials, from hot mix asphalt concrete to porous asphalt concrete, from interface bonding to modal analysis, from destructive testing to non-destructive pavement monitoring by using fiber optics sensors.
Highlights
The twelve articles and state-of-the-art reviews of this Special Issue, “Recent Advances and Future Trends in Pavement Engineering”, partly provided an overview of current innovative pavement engineering ideas, which have the potential to be implemented in industry in the future, covering some recent developments
While studying the effect of high recycled asphalt pavements (RAP) contents on the performance of hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures has been the focus of several research projects, limited work has been done on studying the effect of RAP fraction and particle size on the overall performance of high RAP mixtures produced solely with either coarse or fine RAP particles
Kara De Maeijer et al [7] summarized an overview of the recent developments worldwide in the application of fiber optics sensors (FOS) in asphalt pavement monitoring systems; to find out if those systems provide repeatable and suitable results for a long-term monitoring; if there are certain solutions to validate an inverse modelling approach based on the results of a falling weight deflectometer and FOS
Summary
The twelve articles and state-of-the-art reviews of this Special Issue, “Recent Advances and Future Trends in Pavement Engineering”, partly provided an overview of current innovative pavement engineering ideas, which have the potential to be implemented in industry in the future, covering some recent developments. The field condition of the interface bond between the asphalt layers of experimental pavements in a full-scale test can be assessed using back-calculation from non-destructive testing.
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