Advances in Transportation Geotechnics

Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008

Ed Ellis, Hai-Sui Yu, Glenn McDowell, Andrew R. Dawson, Nick Thom

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134024810
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Highways provide the arteries of modern society. The interaction of road, rail and other transport infrastructure with the ground is unusually intimate, and thus needs to be well-understood to provide economic and reliable infrastructure for society. Challenges include not only the design of new infrastructure (often on problematic ground), but inc

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Innovations in design and construction of granular pavements and railways
• Unified constitutive modeling for pavement materials with emphasis on creep, rate and interface behavior
• Applications of reinforced soil for transport infrastructure
• Recent research on railway track sub-base behaviour
• The effect of soil viscosity on the behaviour of reinforced embankments
• Characterizing the resilient behaviour of treated municipal solid waste bottom ash blends for use in foundations
• Rut depth prediction of granular pavements using the repeated load triaxial apparatus and application in New Zealand specifications for granular materials
• Assessment of sustainable highway geotechnics
• Using pavement trials: Evaluating rutting in forest roads in southern Scotland
• Calcined clay aggregate: A feasible alternative for Brazilian road construction
• Modulus-based quality management of unbound pavement layers with seismic methods
• A design method and performance based specification for UK road foundations
• The anti-shakedown effect
• Water in coarse granular materials: Resilient and retentive properties
• Measurements and modelling of anisotropic elastic behaviour of unbound granular materials
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• Utilization of waste foundry sand as pavement sub-base and fill material
• New Danish test method for the light weight deflectometer (LWD)
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• Contact stiffness affecting discrete element modelling of unbound aggregate granular assemblies
• NordFoU - Pavement performance models. Part 2: Project level, unbound material
• Influence of water content on mechanical behaviour of gravel under moving wheel loads
• The evaluation of in-place recycled asphalt concrete as an unbound granular base material
• Stress studies for permanent deformation calculations
• Equivalence between dry bound macadam and other types of base layers for flexible pavements
• Types and amounts of fines affecting aggregate behaviour
• Using unbound aggregates resulting from amethyst mining in low volume roads
• Rampart roads in the peat lands of Ireland: Genesis, development and current performance
• The effect of compaction level on the performance of thin surfaced granular pavements
• Laboratory characterization and influence of mineralogy on the performance of treated and untreated granular materials for unpaved roads
• Shakedown analysis of road pavement performance
• Anisotropy level prediction model of unbound aggregate systems
• Utilization of waste foundry sand (WFS) as impermeable layer (drainage blanket) for pavement structures
• Installation of optical fibre strain sensors on soil nails used for stabilising a steep highway cut slope
• Behaviour of the reinforced cuts in flysch rock mass
• Numerical modelling of lateral pile-soil interaction for a row of piles in a frictional soil
• New geophysical and geotechnical approaches to characterise under utilised earthworks
• Gault Clay embankment slopes on the A14 - Case studies of shallow and deep instability
• Performance of a very deep soil nailed wall in the Istanbul subway
• Landslide risk factors of geotechnical systems
• Landslide investigation of roads in Sochi on the basis of the optimum risk method
• Slope stabilization of an embankment on the West Coast Main Line, UK
• Some developments in rock slope hazard assessments for road and rail
• Centrifuge modelling of slope stabilisation using a discrete pile row
• The effect of moisture on the stability of rock slopes: An experimental study on the rock slopes of Khosh Yeylagh Main Road, Iran
• Centrifuge modelling of piled embankments
• Performance of embankments on soft ground: A1033 Hedon Road Improvement Scheme, UK
• The arching mechanism in piled embankments under road and rail infrastructure
• FE analysis of the long-term settlement and maintenance of a road on peaty ground
• Numerical modelling for life cycle planning of highway embankments on soft foundations
• A case study of the long-term settlement and life cycle cost of a road on peaty ground
• Pile-supported embankments on soft ground for a high speed railway: Load transfer, distribution and concentration by different construction methods
• Geotechnical challenges faced in the construction of the A55 expressway across Anglesey
• The effect of subsoil support in plane strain finite element analysis of arching in a piled embankment
• Design of reinforced soil structures using fine grained fill types
• Back-analysis of a tunnelling case history: A numerical approach
• Numerical modelling of the stability of shallow mine workings
• Analytical solution of multi-step reinforced soil slopes due to static and seismic loading
• Piled foundations for the M25 Motorway near Heathrow Airport
• Geotechnical aspects of masonry arch bridges
• Reinforced soil structures under the influence of superstructure loads
• 6 Effect of climate change and vegetation
• Predicting seasonal shrink swell cycles within a clay cutting
• Centrifuge modelling of embankments subject to seasonal moisture changes
• Construction and monitoring of a test embankment for evaluation of the impacts of climate change on UK transport infrastructure
• Field testing and modelling the effects of climate on geotechnical infrastructure - A collaborative approach
• Effects of climate change on slopes for transportation infrastructure
• Using soft clay modified with cement-agricultural wastes as road construction materials
• Time dependant volumetric behaviour of asphalt pavements under heavy loading and high temperature
• Quantifying effects of lime stabilized subgrade on conventional flexible pavement responses
• The capacity of improved Khon Kaen Loess as a road construction material
• Non-stationary temperature regime of the pavements
• Contaminated land: Recent research and development for UK Highways Agency
• An assessment of the selected reinforcements of motorway pavement subgrade
• Digital image based numerical approach for micromechanics of asphalt concrete
• Assessment of layer thickness and uniformity in railway embankments with ground penetrating radar
• Ballast stressing on a railway track and the behaviour of limestone ballast
• Design methodology of slab track systems
• Geotechnical aspects of ballasted rail tracks and stabilising underlying soft soil formation
• Effect of loading frequency on the settlement of granular layer
• Testing the ultimate resistance at the sleeper/ballast interface
• Settlement of concrete slab track considering principal stress axis rotation in subgrade
• A comparison of trackbed design methodologies: A case study from a heavy haul freight railway
• Performance of canted ballasted track during curving of high speed trains
• Effects of freezing and thawing processes on the mechanical behavior of silty soils stabilized with fly ash
• Relationship between microstructure and hydraulic conductivity in compacted lime-treated soils
• Characteristics of soft clay stabilized for construction purposes
• Effects of potential deleterious chemical compounds on soil stabilisation
• Stability of the solidification process of a lime-treated silt under percolation conditions
• Some results of laboratory tests on lime-stabilized soils for high speed railways in Italy
• Stabilization of poor soil by paper sludge mixing
• 10 Characterisation and recycling of geomaterials
• Experimental observations and theoretical predictions of shakedown in soils under wheel loading
• The response of ground penetrating radar (GPR) to changes in temperature and moisture condition of pavement materials
• Impact of changes in gradation of bases on performance due to pulverization
• Evaluation of a tropical soil’s performance in laboratory
• Qualifying soils for low volume roads based on soil and pavement mechanics
• In-ground stress-strain condition beneath center and edge of vibratory roller compactor
• Mechanical properties of paving material of pedestrian friendly pavements using coal ash
• Study of suction in unsaturated soils applied to pavement mechanics
• Large-scale direct shear testing of geocell reinforced soil
• Influence of hydraulicity on resilient modulus and Poisson’s ratio of hydraulic, graded iron and steel slag base-course material
• Author Index