Bearing Capacity Of Roads [Hardcover]

This book is an outcome of the sixth conference on bearing capacity of roads and airfield held in Lisbon, Portugal. It focuses on railway tracks and covers following topics: bearing capacity policies, concepts, costs and condition surveys; analysis and modelling; design and environmental effects.Bearing capacity policies, concepts, costs and condition surveys 1. A New Deflection Measuring System for Pavements in Spanish Airports Based on Laser Technology 2. Monitoring Pavement Response during Spring Thaw Using Fiber-Optic Sensors 3. Evolution of French Airport Bearing Capacity Assessment 4. Inconsistencies in Rating the Effect of Aircraft Load and Reporting the Bearing Capacity of Pavements 5. Evaluation of Rigid Pavement Condition Using Falling Weight Deflectometer 6. Non-Contact Deflection Measurement at High Speed 7. Application of Image Analysis to the Identification and Rating of Road Surface Distress 8. ROADEX - Benchmarking Low Traffic Volume Road Condition Management in EU Northern Periphery Area 9. Pavement Condition Survey at a Motorway Section in Croatia: Maintenance and Rehabilitation Activities 10. Validation of Pavement Condition Index - PCI: A Portuguese Case Study Analysis and modeling 11. A Simple Damage Approach to Modelling Fatigue in Bituminous Materials 12. Ultra-Thin Whitetoppings: A 2-D Finite Element Parametric Study 13. A Mechanical Model for the Prediction of the Tire/Road Friction 14. Material Models for Reinforced Unbound Aggregate 15. 3-D FE Analysis of Test Road Structures - Comparison with Measurements 16. Dynamic Analysis of FWD Data for Pavement Evaluation 17. Limiting Equilibrium Methods in Bearing Capacity Analysis of Flexible Pavements Reinforced with Geosynthetics 18. Mechanistic Model for Road Design in Sweden 19. Stress Paths in Flexible Pavements Subjected to Severe Climatic Conditions 20. Backcalculation of Thin Air - a Way to Cope with Slipping and Sliding Layer Interfaces 21. Initial Rutting on Reconstructed Roads and How ilÓÈ