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Paving our ways : a history of the world's roads and pavements
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"Paving Our Ways is the only comprehensive history of the world's pavements, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. It traces the human and social aspects of pavement development a...
"Paving Our Ways is the only comprehensive history of the world's pavements, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. It traces the human and social aspects of pavement development and use for general readers, with detailed technical background for students of transport engineering or engineering history and sociology"--
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- Creator
- Max Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First edition
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0367520788, 036752080X, 9781000228403, 9781000228342, 9780367520786, 100305630X, 9780367520809, 9781003056300, 1000228460, 1000228347, 9781000228465
- OCLC
- on1176321586, on1176316057
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: What is a Road Pavement? -- Authors -- 1 How Pavements are Affected by Traffic and Weather -- 2 Early Pavements in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece -- 3 Making Pavements Using Local Materials and Simple Equipment -- 4 The Essential Paving Properties of Soil, Sand and Stones -- 5 Paving Ways Through Swamps and Bogs -- 6 Roman Pavements - A Major Advance in Pavement Quality and Extent -- 7 Pavement Management Processes from Medieval Europe -- 8 Trésaguet and Telford Lead a Pavement Renaissance in France and England -- 9 McAdam Invents a Major New Pavement Using Broken Stones -- 10 Using Masonry Methods to Produce Pavements for Heavy Traffic -- 11 The Essential Paving Properties of Bitumen, Asphalt and Cement -- 12 Three Unique Pavement Engineers - Metcalf, McAdam and Mountain -- 13 The First Asphalt Pavements, Produced in 19th-Century France and England -- 14 A New Form of Pavement Using Thin, Sprayed Bituminous Surfacings -- 15 Asphalt Paving Produced to Carry 20th-Century Truck Traffic -- 16 The Design of Asphalt Pavements - A Predominantly American Initiative -- 17 The 20th-Century Development of Concrete Pavements -- 18 Chemical and Physical Means of Modifying Local Materials for Paving -- 19 Devices and Methods for Measuring and Evaluating Pavement Performance -- 20 Full-scale Testing of Pavements to Validate Designs Using Local Materials -- 21 Possible Future Pavements, with an Emphasis on Recycling -- 22 How Pavements Could be Funded and Operated in Future Years -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- End Notes -- Index