Highway Engineering: Part 2 - Highway Materials, Maintenance and Rehabilitation

At the conclusion of this course, you will

• Learn about the design and manufacture of high-type bituminous pavement materials.
• Understand the construction methods for hot-mix, hot-laid asphalt, including mixture preparation, site transportation and mixture laying.
• Know the advantages and disadvantages of using sand asphalt for highway engineering paving projects.
• Be familiar with various concrete pavement materials.
• Have knowledge of the practice of proportioning concrete materials during the construction process.
• Learn about joints and joint spacing for controlling stress caused by temperature fluctuation, thickness variations and other factors.
• Understand how to evaluate thickness design by using formulas to analyze the cross section.
• Know the advantages and disadvantages of concrete pavement.
• Be familiar with the practice of highway maintenance, including maintenance management, maintenance operations, maintenance of road surfaces, shoulders, approaches, roadsides, bridges, tunnel, drainage structures, traffic control and safety devices.
• Have knowledge of methods used to control snow and ice.
• Learn how to rehabilitate various pavements.