Water In Pavements - WIP'06

June 20th, 2007, Athens, Greece

Scope

A half-day series of presentations was given in Athens, Greece, as a final summary of the work of the COST351 European Action on Water Movements in Road Pavements and Embankments. It was part of the dissemination activities of the Action. The seminar was kindly hosted by the organisers of the International Conference on the Advanced Characterisation of Pavement & Soil Engineering Materials.

The seminar began with a presentation by the chairman of the Action (Mr Andrew Dawson of the University of Nottingham) which you can download here. In particular the workshop addressed:

1 Introduction
2 Summary overview of Action's work
3 Transport of moisture and temperature in cold regions
4 Water & mechanical behaviour
5 Permanent deformation of unbound granular materials
6 Roads-as-a-Source-of-Contamination
7 Practical-Highway-Design-Drainage
8 State-of-practice-in-prevention-of-water-borne-pollution.pdf
9 Modelling unsaturated subsoil behaviour
10 Conclusion to workshop