AASHTO’s Center for Environmental Excellence announces that a new report has been published on the threats posed by climate change to U.S. public infrastructure. Written by the environmental and natural resources policy organization Resources for the Future, the report focuses on four infrastructure sectors (transportation; energy generation and transmission; water, sewer, and telecommunications; and coastal defense) and [...]
Effect of global warming on public infrastructures
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
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New results published on clay-based road management
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
The need to design and construct roadways on highly plastic clays is common in central and eastern Texas, where expansive clays are prevalent. Roadways constructed on highly plastic clay subgrades may be damaged as the result of significant volume changes that occur when such soils undergo cycles of wetting and drying. These volume changes ultimately shorten [...]
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