Paving our ways : a history of the world's roads and pavements / Max Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lay, M. G. (Maxwell G.), author.

Metcalf, J. B., author.

Sharp, K. G. (Kieran G.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pavements--History.

Pavements.

Roads--History.

Roads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Paving Our Ways is the only comprehensive history of the world's pavements, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. It traces the human and social aspects of pavement development and use for general readers, with detailed technical background for students of transport engineering or engineering history and sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface: What is a Road Pavement?

Authors

1 How Pavements are Affected by Traffic and Weather

2 Early Pavements in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece

3 Making Pavements Using Local Materials and Simple Equipment

4 The Essential Paving Properties of Soil, Sand and Stones

5 Paving Ways Through Swamps and Bogs

6 Roman Pavements - A Major Advance in Pavement Quality and Extent

7 Pavement Management Processes from Medieval Europe

8 Trésaguet and Telford Lead a Pavement Renaissance in France and England

9 McAdam Invents a Major New Pavement Using Broken Stones

10 Using Masonry Methods to Produce Pavements for Heavy Traffic

11 The Essential Paving Properties of Bitumen, Asphalt and Cement

12 Three Unique Pavement Engineers - Metcalf, McAdam and Mountain

13 The First Asphalt Pavements, Produced in 19th-Century France and England

14 A New Form of Pavement Using Thin, Sprayed Bituminous Surfacings

15 Asphalt Paving Produced to Carry 20th-Century Truck Traffic

16 The Design of Asphalt Pavements - A Predominantly American Initiative

17 The 20th-Century Development of Concrete Pavements

18 Chemical and Physical Means of Modifying Local Materials for Paving

19 Devices and Methods for Measuring and Evaluating Pavement Performance

20 Full-scale Testing of Pavements to Validate Designs Using Local Materials

21 Possible Future Pavements, with an Emphasis on Recycling

22 How Pavements Could be Funded and Operated in Future Years

Timeline

Bibliography

End Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-305630-X

1-000-22846-0

1-003-05630-X

1-000-22834-7

9781003056300

OCLC:

1176316057