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Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials

  • 1st Edition - November 19, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ellie H. Fini, Pouria Hajikarimi
  • Language: English

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Description

Bio-Based and Bio-Inspired Pavement Construction Materials explores the role of materials in carbon management, performance enhancement, and supply chain management in pavement construction. It presents various production techniques, experimental characterization methods, applications, numerical modeling, and simulation approaches for bio-based and bio-inspired pavement construction materials. The book demonstrates how bio-based and bio-inspired materials can be used in pavements to solve problems related to sustainability while simultaneously enhancing the mechanical properties of materials. Supply chain management, life-cycle analysis, and environmental assessment of using these materials are all covered in this volume as well.

Key features

  • Covers applications of bio-based and bio-inspired materials, supply chain management, life-cycle analysis, and environmental assessments
  • Outlines production methods, experimental characterization techniques, numerical modeling, and simulation approaches for bio-based and bio-inspired materials
  • Discusses various sources of bio-materials, including animal waste, wood, plants, and other natural resources
  • Studies fabrication procedures such as pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, thermal carbonation, and thermochemical reaction

Readership

Researchers, academics, college students, and industry practitioner interested in sustainability, bio-economy, built environment, engineering, environmental science, resource conservation, and geology.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to bioinspiration and biomimetics in pavement construction

2. Sources and production

3. Experimental characterization

4. Numerical modeling and simulation

5. Supply chain management and the circular economy

6. Environmental assessment and pavement lifecycle

7. Current and prospective challenges

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 19, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Ellie H. Fini

Ellie H. Fini is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), an Invention Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fulbright Scholar at Aalborg University of Denmark, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, and the Director of the Innovation Network for Materials, Methods and Management. Her research focuses on the production, characterization, and atomistic modeling of sustainable, high-performance materials for construction and infrastructure applications. With more than 200 scholarly publications and numerous invited talks, her work has advanced the science and engineering of resilient infrastructure materials. Her research has also been featured by BBC Women in STEM, Science Nation, Wired Magazine, and CNBC.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, USA

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Pouria Hajikarimi

Pouria Hajikarimi is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Advanced Pavement Laboratory in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). His main field of research interest is the experimental and numerical investigation of homogeneous and heterogeneous viscoelastic materials, and using bio-based and waste substances in different constructional materials like asphalt mixture, cementitious concrete, and geopolymer. Recently, he published his first book entitled Applications of Viscoelasticity: Bituminous Materials Characterization and Modeling with Elsevier. He has published more than 35 journal papers and several international conference papers in his field of expertise.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

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