Geotechnical and geoenvironmental properties of recycled construction and demolition materials in pavement subbase applications

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1077-1088

  Arulrajah, A ^a   Piratheepan, J ^a   Disfani, M M ^a   Bo, M W ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b DST CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geotechnical; Pavement; Recycled materials; Resilient modulus; Shear strength; Subbase; Waste

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION; GEOTECHNICAL; OPTIMUM MOISTURE CONTENT; RECLAIMED ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; RECYCLED CONCRETE AGGREGATES; RECYCLED MATERIALS; RESILIENT MODULUS; SUBBASE;

COMPACTION; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PAVEMENTS; QUARRIES; RECYCLING; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WASTES;

MATERIALS PROPERTIES;

AGGREGATE; BASE COURSE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ELASTIC MODULUS; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PAVEMENT; RECYCLING; RESILIENCE; SHEAR STRENGTH; SUBGRADE;

EID: 84881338545     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000652     Document Type: Article

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