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Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement (2020)
Journal Article
Rahman, T., Dawson, A., & Thom, N. (2020). Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement. Construction and Building Materials, 246, Article 118411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118411

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Warm-mix asphalt (WMA) is commonly mixed and compacted 15°C to 30°C below that of conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA). The lower production temperature of WMA is expected to give an advantage of a lower cooling time of newly laid a... Read More about Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement.

A novel approach for rational determination of warm mix asphalt production temperatures (2018)
Journal Article
Abed, A., Thom, N., & Grenfell, J. (2019). A novel approach for rational determination of warm mix asphalt production temperatures. Construction and Building Materials, 200, 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.12.082

Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) has been developed to minimise environmental impact of asphalt by reducing production temperatures of this material. This study provides a new approach to design WMA production temperatures by two methods. First, aggregate coat... Read More about A novel approach for rational determination of warm mix asphalt production temperatures.

Novel performance-based technique for predicting maintenance strategy of bitumen stabilised ballast (2017)
Journal Article
D'Angelo, G., Bressi, S., Giunta, M., Lo Presti, D., & Thom, N. (2018). Novel performance-based technique for predicting maintenance strategy of bitumen stabilised ballast. Construction and Building Materials, 161, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.11.115

Despite being the most used worldwide, railway ballasted tracks presents high maintenance cost related to ballast settlement and particle degradation. With the aim of reducing life cycle costs, bitumen stabilised ballast (BSB) has been recently propo... Read More about Novel performance-based technique for predicting maintenance strategy of bitumen stabilised ballast.