Reclaimed Waste Materials for Sustainable Pavement Construction

This book provides an overview of the use of various waste materials in pavement construction and their potential impact on sustainable infrastructure development. It explores the use of waste materials as alternatives to traditional pavement materials like asphalt and concrete. It discusses the properties and performance of various waste materials and their applications in pavement construction, highlighting the economic and environmental benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower construction costs, and enhanced durability and longevity of pavements.

Features:

• Explores the use of waste materials such as recycled plastics, rubber, glass, and other industrial by-products as alternatives to traditional pavement materials.
• Provides detailed guidance on the selection, design, and implementation of waste materials.
• Focuses on the practical application of waste materials in pavement construction.
• Reviews bio-oils and focuses on plastics from different sources.
• Includes case studies on waste materials used in pavement structure.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in pavement and civil engineering.

Dr. Vivek is currently employed by NIT Srinagar as an assistant professor in the department of civil engineering. He earned his post-doctoral fellowship at NIT Srinagar and has a PhD from NIT Hamirpur. He possesses four international patents in the field of transportation engineering and has published in over 13 SCI indexed publications. His broad research interests include the characterization of pavement materials, pavement design, use of geotextiles on roads, mechanical behaviour, resilient response, and asphalt materials, as well as traffic flow theory and modelling, vehicular emission modelling, accident analysis, and environmental effects on pavements.

Dr. Sandeep Samantaray is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department of the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has research publications and presentations on such subjects as watershed management, Waste materials, hydrologic modelling and computing in developing sustainable means of managing the environment. In addition to attending more than 61 international conferences, he has written 40 articles in international journals (SCI/SCOPUS Indexing) and 9 book chapters. He holds two patents from India, Eight from South Africa, and one from Germany. Also, He published one Book in CRC Press. Currently, he is working as an Editorial Board member of Reputed journals like Discover Geoscience, Discover Atmosphere, Frontiers in Environmental Engineering and PLOS One.

Prof. Rakesh Sehgal is currently working as a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of NIT Hamirpur. He earned his B.E. in mechanical engineering from Annamalai University (T.N.)’s Faculty of Engineering & Technology and his M.Tech. in mechanical equipment design from IIT Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. in Tribology from R.E.C. Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra University, and then pursued a postdoctoral degree in the area of thermal behaviour of non-circular hydrodynamic journal bearings between 2009 and 2011 with funding from a UGC Fellowship Award. He also developed equations for film thickness for elliptical and offset halves hydrodynamic journal bearings. In addition to holding the position of Director of NIT Srinagar (J&K) from 2017 to 2023, he is affiliated with other prestigious universities in a variety of positions.