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Bumpy Roads Ahead: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother [PDF]
, 2013 These days, potholes and pavement deterioration make it a challenge to keep the wheel steady on America's roads and highways. More than a quarter of the nation's major urban roadways -- highways and major streets that are the main routes for commuters ...
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Soil geohazard mapping for improved asset management of UK local roads [PDF]
, 2015 Unclassified roads comprise 60% of the road network in the United Kingdom (UK). The resilience of this locally important network is declining. It is considered by the Institution of Civil Engineers to be “at risk” and is ranked 26th in the world ...
Farewell, Timothy S. +2 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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2D Metal‐Organic Frameworks for High‐Performance Solid‐State Electrolytes: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Science, EarlyView.In this review, we elucidate the intrinsic advantages, synthetic methodologies, structural characteristics, ion‐transport mechanisms and performance optimization strategies while highlighting representative material systems and applications of 2D MOFs for electrolyte applications.
Changchun Ai +8 more
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Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements: Policies and Tradeoffs in Pavement Improvement [PDF]
, 2004 With the budget crisis plaguing so many states, pavement management will compete more vigorously for limited funds. Findings reported from a tri-state pooled-fund research project provide insights and guidelines for pavement improvement derived from the ...
Kuemmel, David, Robinson, Richard
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coal remains a major global energy source despite ongoing environmental controversies, particularly, regarding climate change and landscape transformation. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) in the Moatize Coal Basin (MCB), Mozambique, between 1990 and 2024, with a specific focus on land ...
Ivan Latinho Naite +2 more
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Contributions to predicting contaminant leaching from secondary materials used in roads [PDF]
, 2004 Slags, coal ashes, and other secondary materials can be used in road construction. Both traditional and secondary materials used in roads may contain contaminants that may leach and pollute the groundwater.
Apul, Defne S
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Bridge expansion joint in road transition curve: effects assessment on heavy vehicles [PDF]
, 2017 Properly-designed road surfaces provide a durable surface on which traffic can pass smoothly and safely. In fact, the main causes that determine the structural decay of the pavement and its parts are the traffic loads.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Road traffic noise is a pervasive environmental pollutant that negatively affects wildlife globally. Despite growing research, quantifying the spatial extent of noise impacts remains underdeveloped. Soundscape mapping from social sciences and engineering literature offers a useful yet rarely implemented tool to depict noise impact distances ...
Yael Lehnardt +3 more
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Green Up Pavement Rehabilitation Design Tool [PDF]
, 2019 While designers produce pavement rehabilitation recommendations every day, for projects of all sizes, most designers have little information on the environmental impact of their recommendations.
Andrei, Dragos +2 more
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