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Highways : the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements / Coleman O'Flaherty and David Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Highway engineering--Great Britain.
- Highway engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 585 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : ICE Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- The fifth edition of 'Highways' provides a comprehensive view across all aspects of road engineering, encompassing an extensive range of topics from pavement design, earthworks, and skid resistance to subsurface moisture control, surface drainage and construction of hot-mix bituminous roadbases and surfacings. This book shares the insights and practical experiences of industry experts who present the multifaceted aspects of road engineering to those seeking to discover more about these themes.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Coleman O’Flaherty
- The road development process: plans, specifications and contracts / Andrew Boyle
- Route location / Gareth Hearn
- Site investigations / Dan Raynor
- Soils and soil testing for roadworks / Michael Maher
- Earthworks for roadworks / Paul Nowak
- Materials used in road pavements / Andrew Dawson
- Soil-stabilised and hydraulically bound mixtures used in road pavements / Kim Jenkins
- Standard asphalt mixtures used in pavement layers / Michael Brennan and Alan Kavanagh
- Moisture control: surface and subsurface drainage / Andrew Todd
- Introduction to pavement thickness design: some basic considerations / David Hughes and Coleman O’Flaherty
- Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concrete block paving / John Knapton
- Current UK thickness design recommendations for new bituminous and concrete pavements / Nick Thom
- Design and construction of asphalt bases and surfacings / Gordon Airey
- Constructing concrete pavements / Martin O’Connell
- Pavement asset management / Seosamh Costello and Martin Snaith
- Structural strengthening of road pavements / Derek McMullen
- Wet skid resistance / David Woodward
- Design and use of thin surface treatments / Hussain Khalid
- Index.
- Notes:
- Fourth edition published in 2002 by Butterworth Heinemann.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-5231-0567-4
- 0-7277-5994-9
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