Review on China's Pavement Engineering Research:2024
Highway construction in China has witnessed remarkable achievements,with rapid growth in the national road network and continuous breakthroughs in the key technologies.This review aims to further enhance the influential level of pavement engineering in China,as well to promote its sustainable and high-quality development.The review systematically summarizes the current status,cutting-edge issues,and future development in pavement engineering.Specifically,it covers seven research topics:highway resilience evaluation and recovery,long-life pavement structures and materials,highway energy self-sufficiency,low environmental impact technologies,the genome of pavement materials and high-throughput computations,highway digitalization and intelligence,and highway intelligent inspection and high-performance maintenance.Focusing on the fields of green,resilience,intelligence,longevity,and traffic-energy interaction,the review identifies 20 critical research topics,including factors leading to highway disasters and their mechanisms evaluation and recovery of highway resilience,key technologies for enhancing highway resilience,full-scale tests for long-life pavement structures,technologies for extending the longevity of highway structures and functions,energy harvesting technologies,energy self-sufficient highways designs,environmental impact testing methodologies and evaluations;innovative materials for low-impact pavements,warm mix asphalt recycling technology,genomic studies on pavement materials,multiscale computation for pavement materials,research on the genome of pavement materials and high-throughput computations,digital modeling technologies,digital twin simulation technologies,data-driven technologies for highway maintenance operations,ground-penetrating radar detection technologies;lightweight detection of pavement performance,strategies for detecting and recovering pavement skid resistance,and high-performance preventive maintenance technologies.The review can provide guidance for the pavement engineering development in China,offering valuable reference for the researchers and practitioners in this field.
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