Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements: Recent submissions
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Evaluating Effects of Fischer-Tropsch Waxes on Rheology, Rutting, Fracture, and Low-Temperature Properties of Asphalt Binder Containing RAP
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A high percentage of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is being used in asphalt mixes to reduce the consumption of new materials and conserve natural resources. It has been reported that when a high percentage of RAP is ... -
Improved Moduli Backcalculation of the Upper Layers in Asphalt Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study was motivated by the need for improved moduli backcalculation of the upper layers in asphalt pavements. The method of improvement was to physically upgrade the usual falling weight deflectometer (FWD) design to ... -
Valuing Imperfect Information from Inspection and Sensing in Condition-Based Roadway Pavement Management with Partially Observable Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)High serviceability of roadway pavements is crucial to well-functioning roadway networks. With time and use, the condition of these roadway elements degrades and maintenance or rehabilitation (M&R) is required to ensure ... -
Effect of Saturation on Performance of Steel Slag Ballast under Cyclic Rail Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Steel slag is becoming a popular alternative to conventional natural ballast in a ballasted rail track under a circular economy paradigm. The mechanical behavior of ballast has a significant impact on the overall performance ... -
Path-Planning Algorithm for Automated Pavement Crack Sealing Based on Postman Problems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Cracks exist in many civil infrastructures, such as road and bridge deck surfaces, parking lots, and building surfaces. To prevent crack growth and further deterioration, it is necessary to fill these cracks with appropriate ... -
Numerical Prediction of Water Film Thickness on Pavement during Rainfall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The purpose of this study is to develop a finite volume model to predict the water film thickness on a road pavement during rainfall. Raindrops are treated as dispersed spherical particles in a continuous gas phase of air. ... -
Multivariate Life Cycle Cost Analysis Related to Fatigue Cracking in Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements Subjected to Superloads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A recent trend in pursuing high transportation efficiency has resulted in a significant change in the size and capacity of superloads, as well as variation in the size and capacity of implements of husbandry and superheavy ... -
An Innovative Pavement Performance Prediction Method Based on Few-Shot Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Pavement deterioration is a critical road maintenance issue, particularly in countries such as China, which has a vast road network. In the coming decades, many countries will need to address a significant number of road ... -
Investigation of Modified Asphalt Binders through Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Modification of asphalt binders causes changes in asphalt chemistry that can impact performance. The main goal of this study was to look for any appreciable alterations in asphalt chemistry brought on by aging and modification. ... -
Intelligent Detection of Sealed Crack with 2D Asphalt Pavement Images
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accurately identifying sealed cracks on asphalt pavement surfaces is of significant importance to pavement management. This paper proposes an efficient semantic segmentation model called Parallel-TDNet for pixel-level ... -
Air Temperature Prediction Models for Pavements Based on the Gene Expression Programming Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As per the performance grading scheme, the selection of asphalt binder for a particular location requires information on seven-day maximum and one-day minimum pavement temperatures. Pavement surface temperatures are usually ... -
Impact of Wide-Base Tire on Flexible Pavement Responses: Coupling Effects of Multiaxle and Dynamic Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Wide-base tires (WBTs) have been gradually adopted for trucks to improve fuel economy and driving comfort. This study aims to investigate the impact of WBTs on flexible pavement responses as compared to dual tires (DTs) ... -
Hydroplaning Effects of Tread Patterns of Motorcycle Tires
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Hydroplaning is a critical phenomenon affecting motorcycles navigating wet roads at high speeds. Insufficient tire performance in resisting hydroplaning leads to motorcycle accidents and rider injuries. The tread patterns ... -
Advanced Hybrid CNN-GRU Model for IRI Prediction in Flexible Asphalt Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The international roughness index (IRI) is an important parameter for road surface roughness assessment, which is crucial for road safety. This study developed a road roughness prediction model for predicting the IRI of ... -
Accuracy of Pavement ME Methodology in Predicting Strain Responses under Multiple Axle Loadings in Flexible Pavements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The mechanistic-empirical pavement design method (Pavement ME) uses linear-elastic analysis to calculate the strain responses induced by single and multiple axle loadings, and the method relies on the concept of equivalent ... -
Evaluation of Factors Influencing the High Temperature Viscoelastic Response of a Fine Aggregate Matrix Using a Modified Multiple Stress Creep Recovery Test
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The fine aggregate matrix (FAM), consisting of asphalt binder, mineral filler, fine aggregate, and air voids, plays a major role in the mechanistic response of asphalt mixtures. The behavior of FAM is significantly affected ... -
Evaluating Full-Scale Electrically Conductive Concrete Heated-Pavement Systems to Identify Key Design Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although electrically conductive concrete (ECON) heated-pavement system (HPS) is a promising alternative to traditional snow-removal methods, the lack of design guidelines for future ECON projects hinders their widespread ... -
Enhancing Road Surface Temperature Prediction: A Novel Approach Integrating Transfer Learning with Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Timely and accurate prediction of winter road surface temperature is crucial for the effective operation of a road weather information system (RWIS), which is essential to road traffic safety. A major challenge in achieving ... -
A Study on Deformation Behavior of a Subbase Layer Mixed with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement under Repetitive Wheel Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study deals with the behavior of the aggregate subbase mixed with reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) material. A comprehensive investigation of a standardized well-graded unbound subbase laid over a subgrade of California ... -
Effect of Carbon Nanomaterials on the Rheological Characteristics of Crumb Rubber–Modified Asphalt
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This research aims at studying the effect of graphite nanoplatelets (GNPs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the rheological characteristics of crumb rubber (CR)–modified asphalt. For this purpose, the apparent viscosity, ...