Development of Optimized Mixes and Selection of Suitable Binders – D-A-CH – Initial Project (ASTRA2006/002)
Overview
Background & policy context:
In the three countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland similar goals in developing better pavements are focussed. The goal to construct roads with good performance under high and heavy traffic has thus a high priority.
Objectives:
The goals of the research project are
1) to summarise the state of the art in the three countries, especially to compile:
a) how heavy trafficked section of road is defined and what is considered as optimal in terms of noise, rutting, skid resistance and long term performance;
b) the specification of mixes primarily used for such roads in the three countries are to be discussed and compared;
c) the state of research is to be described
2) the systems applied in the three countries should be compared in the final report and compared
3) gap of knowledge should be identified
4) a follow up research project should be initialised and guidelines should be defined
Methodology:
The work program includes:
- Evaluation of the state of the art in Switzerland
- Cooperation with the research partner in Germany and Austria, to ensure that similar partial reports arise
- Presentation of an interim report on the D-A-CH Meeting in 2006
- Definition of the research bundle D-A-CH
- Creation of a synthesis report
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