Highways is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering and the new edition will cover the latest developments in the field, building on the fourth edition which is still viewed as the leading title in highway engineering, despite now being over ten years old.
Originally published 1974, this book is the leading authority on the subject. Highways, 5th edition covers road location and plans, roadwork materials, surface and subsurface moisture control, pavement design and construction, thickness design of bituminous and concrete pavements, and road maintenance and rehabilitation.
Contents:
1. Historical Overview of the Development of the Road
2. The Road Development Process: Plans, Specifications and Contracts and Contracts
3. Road Location
4. Ground Investigations
5. Soils and Soil-testing for Roadworks
6. Earthworks for Roadworks
7. Basic Materials Used in Road Pavements
8. Soil-stabilised and Hydraulically-bound Mixtures Used in Road Pavements
9. Standard Mixes used in Bituminous-bound Pavement Layers in the UK
10. Moisture Control: Subsurface and Surface Drainage
11. Introduction to Pavement Thickness Design
12. Analysis of Stresses in Rigid Concrete Slabs and an Introduction to the Design of Concrete Block Paving
13. Current UK Thickness Design Recommendations re New Bituminous and Concrete Pavements
14. Design and Construction of Bituminous Bases and Surfacings
15. Constructing Concrete Pavements
16. Road Asset Management
17. Structural Maintenance of Road
Pavements
18. Wet Skid Resistance
19. Design and Use of Thin Surface Treatments
