22 October 2024
Water damage in asphalt roads
Organised by:
SCI’s Construction Materials group
SCI, London, UK
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.Exhibition and Sponsorship
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Programme
Tuesday 22 October 2024
- 09.30
- Registration and refreshments
- 10.00
- Chairman’s introduction
- 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
- Adhesion testing – what’s available?
Speaker to be confirmed - 14.50
- The benefit of surfactant chemistry on moisture resistance
Carlos Riff and Adam Schaefer, 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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Venue and Contact
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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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Partners
Organising committee
Lucia de Ferrariis, WSPCorina Draper, Shell
Mike Gibb, Hyperion
Tom Green, Socotec
John Richardson, Retired