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Highways
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Highways' is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering. This new edition, written by a team of acknowledged experts in the field, teams up with 'Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering' to become a worthy successor to O'Flaherty's classic 'Highway Engineering' set. This fourth edition covers road location and plans, roadwork ma
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A historical overview of the development of the road
- 1: Road location
- 2: Subsurface investigations
- 3: Plans, specifications and contracts
- 4: Soils for roadworks
- 5: Materials used in road pavements
- 6: Soil-stabilized pavements
- 7: Surface drainage for roads
- 8: Subsurface moisture control for road pavements
- 9: Introduction to pavement design
- 10: Earthworks and unbound bases for pavements
- 11: Premixed bituminous-bound courses: standard materials
- 12: Design and construction of hot-mix bituminous surfacings and roadbases
- 13: Concrete pavement construction
- 14: Current British thickness design practice in relation to new bituminous and concrete pavements
- 15: Analytical design of flexible pavements
- 16: Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concrete block paving
- 17: Basic road maintenance operations
- 18: Wet skid resistance
- 19: Design and use of surface treatments
- 20: Structural maintenance of road pavements
- Index