Highways, Fourth Edition

"'Highways' is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering. This new edition, written by a team of acknowledged experts in the field, teams up with 'Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering' to become a worthy successor to O'Flaherty's classic 'Highway Engineering' set. This fourth 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. The content has been expanded and thoroughly updated to take into account new developments in the subject, making it essential reading for students of civil engineering."--Provided by publisher.

Chapter Introduction: A historical overview of the development of the road -- chapter 1 Road location -- chapter 2 Subsurface investigations -- chapter 3 Plans, specifications and contracts -- chapter 4 Soils for roadworks -- chapter 5 Materials used in road pavements -- chapter 6 Soil-stabilized pavements -- chapter 7 Surface drainage for roads -- chapter 8 Subsurface moisture control for road pavements -- chapter 9 Introduction to pavement design -- chapter 10 Earthworks and unbound bases for pavements -- chapter 11 Premixed bituminous-bound courses: standard materials -- chapter 12 Design and construction of hot-mix bituminous surfacings and roadbases -- chapter 13 Concrete pavement construction -- chapter 14 Current British thickness design practice in relation to new bituminous and concrete pavements -- chapter 15 Analytical design of flexible pavements -- chapter 16 Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concrete block paving -- chapter 17 Basic road maintenance operations -- chapter 18 Wet skid resistance -- chapter 19 Design and use of surface treatments -- chapter 20 Structural maintenance of road pavements.