RedVector RV-10007

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

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

8 hrs. Online Course

Level: Intermediate

Item#: RV-10007

SME: Paul H. Wright and Karen Dixon

This course has been discontinued.

 
 

Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them.

Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them. Each year in the United States, enormous quantities of construction materials are used for improvements to the public roadway system. Such projects require annually over 590 million tons of aggregates, 11 million tons of bituminous materials, and 19 million tons of cement, as well as vast quantities of steel, lumber, explosives, and petroleum products.

This 8-hour interactive online course is the second half of the eighth course in a series on highway engineering. This course covers high-type pavements, concrete pavements, maintenance and rehabilitation.

Course Objectives

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.

 

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Paul H. Wright and Karen Dixon
Paul H. Wright and Karen Dixon Photo
Dr. Karen Dixon is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at Oregon State University. She has her Ph.D., Masters and Bachelors in Civil Engineering. Professor Dixon's interests include transportation design, operations, and safety with particular emphasis on creating a transportation infrastructure that serves all prospective users. Dr. Paul Wright is widely recognized as an expert in highway safety.
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