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EPSRC Reference: GR/S64424/01
Title: Platform Grant: Pavement and Rail Track Engineering
Principal Investigator: Brown, Professor S
Other Investigators:
Airey, Professor GD Collop, Professor AC
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Mr AR Dawson Dr NH Thom
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Department: Sch of Civil Engineering
Organisation: University of Nottingham
Scheme: Platform Grants (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 2004 Ends: 30 September 2008 Value (£): 421,075
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Pavement Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Construction
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Summary on Grant Application Form
This grant will allow the initial investment in expanding pavement research and introducing significant rail research to be continued with the larger academic staff complement and improved laboratory facilites that have been provided at Nottingham over the past three years. While continuing to focus on high quality experimental research, new areas are be explored, including improved constitutive modelling, combining chemical with mechanical understanding of materials and applying improved predictive methods to Pavement Management Systems for the benefit of the road and rail industries. Research planning and strategy will be developed under five themes, Rail Track, Bitumen and Asphalt, Concrete and Hydraulic Bound Materials, Foundations and Pavement Performance & Management. The international links which have been formed over the past three years will be exploited and other promising collaborations pursued.
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