Materials and Technologies
Pavement, rail track and airfield Materials and Technologies including bitumen, asphalt, hydraulically bound materials, unbound granular materials, soils as well as self-healing materials, bitumen stabilized materials, modified bitumen, bio-binders and recycled asphalt mixes.
Research activities address the key distress mechanisms of flow and plastic deformation, cracking and fracture, sustainability as well as technology development following sustainability principles, increasing resilience and incorporating smart systems such as complex fluids and sensors.
- Computational design of materials
- Computational rheology (CFD, etc.)
- Advanced and innovative testing
- Binder and asphalt performance-based design
- Multi-criteria product design
- Bio-based materials T
- yre rubber recycling
- Recycled asphalt mixes
- Low-energy asphalts
- Life cycle assessment
- Sustainability assessment
- CRABfor OERE
- Self-Healing materials
- Self-healing asphalt mixtures
- Bitumen modification for asphalt pavements & for roofing membranes
- Bituminous stabilized ballast