22 October 2024

Water damage in asphalt roads

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SCI, London, UK

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Synopsis

It is virtually impossible to keep a road pavement from coming in contact with water, entering in various ways, e.g. flowing from rainfall or from groundwater absorbed into the structure by capillary action. In conjunction with traffic loading, water is often a contributing factor in pavement distress such as cracking, rutting and ravelling. Therefore, road design should take account of how to minimize its damaging effects on the pavement structure.

This symposium will consider how an asphalt pavement is damaged and eroded by water action and examine possible ways of preventing it, with a focus on binder-to-aggregate adhesion, including the effect of anti-stripping additives.

Attendees

This event will be of interest to those working in highway authorities, civil and military airport authorities, road and railway engineering consultants, university civil engineering departments, construction materials testing laboratories, as well as materials suppliers and contractors, and road and airfield construction contractors and operators.

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Programme

Tuesday 22 October 2024

09.30: Registration and refreshments
10.00: Chairman’s introduction
David Ball
10.10: Multi-scale assessment of moisture damage
Professor Gordon Airey, NTEC, University of Nottingham
10.35: Water and the pothole problem
Dr Nick Thom, NTEC, University of Nottingham and Mujib Rahman, Aston University
11.00: Effects of water on binder adhesion’
Dr Alex Apeagyei, University of East London
11.35: Refreshment break
11.55: Molecular dynamics investigation of interfacial adhesion properties between bitumen and aggregate
Dr Haopeng Wang, Liverpool University
12.20: Water damage and the effect of aggregate geological type
Dr David Woodward, Ulster University
12.45: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Implementation of automatic data capture during construction to enhance durability of asphalt pavements
Dr Michael Gordon, WSP
14.25: Weathering of coloured asphalt surfaces
Dr Ignacio Artamendi, Aggregate Industries
14.50: Adhesion Promoters in Asphalt Mixtures: Structure, Physiochemistry, Function, and Application
Everett Crews, Ingevity
15.15: Traffic speed GPR for moisture profiling in roads
Bob Milligan, Impulse Geophysics
15.40: Discussion
16.10: Event close
16.15: Refreshments on departure

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14/15 Belgrave Square
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Fees

Before early bird - ends Tuesday 17 September 2024
SCI Member - £110
Non-Member - £145
SCI Student Member - £35
*NARC/IAT/ IHE Member - £130

After early bird
SCI Member - £150
Non-Member - £200
SCI Student Member - £50
* NARC/IAT/ IHE Member - £180

* NARC/IAT/ IHE Member should enter the Event discount code EJNICMATS686 and select “Guest Member” under the section Member type. Delegates will be contacted for their NARC/IAT/ IHE membership number after successful registration.

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Organising committee

Lucia de Ferrariis, WSP
Corina Draper, Shell
Mike Gibb, Hyperion
Tom Green, Socotec
John Richardson, Retired