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Paving Our Ways

A History of the World's Roads and Pavements

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-0-367-52080-9

Verlag: CRC Press

Erscheinungstermin: 23.11.2020

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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context.

It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England.

The work of Trésaguet, Telford and McAdam is examined. Asphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored, as are the tools for financing, constructing, managing and maintaining pavements.

The book should appeal to those interested in road paving, and in the history of engineering and transport. It can also serve as a text for courses in engineering history.

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Artikelnummer: 9780367520809
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-52080-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Erscheinungstermin: 23.11.2020
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 640 g
Seiten: 314
Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 22 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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ContentsPreface: What is a road pavement? ixAuthors xiii1 How pavements are affected by traffic and weather 12 Early pavements in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece 73 Making pavements using local materials and simple equipment 134 The essential paving properties of soil, sand and stones 275 Paving ways through swamps and bogs 376 Roman pavements - a major advance in pavement quality and extent 437 Pavement management processes from medieval Europe 518 Trésaguet and Telford lead a pavement renaissance in France and England 599 McAdam invents a major new pavement using broken stones 6710 Using masonry methods to produce pavements for heavy traffic 8711 The essential paving properties of bitumen, asphalt and cement 9912 Three unique pavement engineers - Metcalf, McAdam and Mountain 10513 The first asphalt pavements, produced in 19th-century France and England 11314 A new form of pavement using thin, sprayed bituminous surfacings 13115 Asphalt paving produced to carry 20th-century truck traffic 13716 The design of asphalt pavements - a predominantly American initiative 15117 The 20th-century development of concrete pavements 16518 Chemical and physical means of modifying local materials for paving 17519 Devices and methods for measuring and evaluating pavement performance 18120 Full-scale testing of pavements to validate designs using local materials 20721 Possible future pavements, with an emphasis on recycling 22922 How pavements could be funded and operated in future years 235Timeline 239Bibliography 253End Notes 269Index 291

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