Università Roma Tre

Road and Railway Pavements is a course of the Master Degree in Road Infrastructures and Transport. This degree aims at training a highly professional figure in civil engineering with specific knowledge and skills in road infrastructures design and management and transportation issues.
Within this degree, Road and Railway Pavements is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and understanding of the elements for design, management and maintenance of road and railway pavements.
The main topics concern: principles of structural design of flexible and rigid road pavements, the analysis of the surface defects and their effects on road safety and comfort; the analysis of the changes over the time of the defects; maintenance strategies.
At the end of the course the students will be able to: 1) carry out mix design procedures for road pavements using Marshall and volumetric design methods 2) design bituminous and concrete pavement structures by means of empirical and mechanistic design methods 3) perform procedures of quality control for road pavements; 4) characterize the performances of road pavements by means of methods for collecting pavement condition data and indicators; 5) analyze the road pavements damages and define the maintenance interventions.

Course Program
Types of road pavements. Type of mixtures for road pavements. Mix design: Marshall method, volumetric design. Principles and methods for design of bituminous and concrete pavements: empirical methods, mechanistic design. Performance characteristics of road pavements: indicators and methods for collecting pavement condition data. Types of defects of road pavements: fatigue cracking; rutting, others defects. Catalogues of road pavements defects. Railway pavement structures.

Documentation will be provided by the lecturer. It will be made available on the Moodle 3 platform before lectures.
Norme CNR - Norme UNI
Ferrari e Giannini. Ingegneria stradale vol. 2 “Corpo stradale e pavimentazioni”.
Tesoriere G. - Strade, Ferrovie ed Aeroporti. Vol. II e III. UTET.
F. Annunziata, M. Coni, F. Maltinti, F.Pinna, S. Portas. Progettazione stradale integrata.Zannichelli, 2004
Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti – Ispettorato per la Circolazione e la Sicurezza Stradale. Norme tecniche di tipo prestazionale per capitolati speciali d’appalto.
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. AASHTO guide for design of pavement structures.
Yoder, E. J. Witczak, M. W. Principles of pavement design. Second edition. Wiley Interscience
Yang Huang. Pavement Analysis and Design – second edition, 2004. Prentice Hall
M. Agostinacchio, D. Ciampa, S. Olita – Strade Ferrovie Aeroporti. II ed. EPC Libri, Roma 2007
G. Dondi, C. Lantieri, A. Simone, V. Vignali ‘Costruzioni stradali: aspetti progettuali e costruttivi’. Hoepli, 2013
F.A. Santagata (curatore) ‘Strade: teoria e tecnica delle costruzioni stradali: progettazione - costruzione, gestione e manutenzione’. Editore Pearson, 2016.