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Dr. Gaetano Di Mino
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 8 – 90128 Palermo, Italy

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Case report
Published: 26 August 2021 in Sustainability
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The demolition of buildings, apart from being energy intensive and disruptive, inevitably produces construction and demolition waste (C&Dw). Unfortunately, even today, the majority of this waste ends up underexploited and not considered as valuable resources to be re-circulated into a closed/open loop process under the umbrella of circular economy (CE). Considering the amount of virgin aggregates needed in civil engineering applications, C&Dw can act as sustainable catalyst towards the preservation of natural resources and the shift towards a CE. This study completes current research by presenting a life cycle inventory compilation and life cycle assessment case study of two buildings in France. The quantification of the end-of-life environmental impacts of the two buildings and subsequently the environmental impacts of recycled aggregates production from C&Dw was realized using the framework of life cycle assessment (LCA). The results indicate that the transport of waste, its treatment, and especially asbestos’ treatment are the most impactful phases. For example, in the case study of the first building, transport and treatment of waste reached 35% of the total impact for global warming. Careful, proactive, and strategic treatment, geolocation, and transport planning is recommended for the involved stakeholders and decision makers in order to ensure minimal sustainability implications during the implementation of CE approaches for C&Dw.

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Ambroise Lachat; Konstantinos Mantalovas; Tiffany Desbois; Oumaya Yazoghli-Marzouk; Anne-Sophie Colas; Gaetano Di Mino; Adélaïde Feraille. From Buildings’ End of Life to Aggregate Recycling under a Circular Economic Perspective: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Case Study. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9625 .

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Ambroise Lachat, Konstantinos Mantalovas, Tiffany Desbois, Oumaya Yazoghli-Marzouk, Anne-Sophie Colas, Gaetano Di Mino, Adélaïde Feraille. From Buildings’ End of Life to Aggregate Recycling under a Circular Economic Perspective: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Case Study. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (17):9625.

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Ambroise Lachat; Konstantinos Mantalovas; Tiffany Desbois; Oumaya Yazoghli-Marzouk; Anne-Sophie Colas; Gaetano Di Mino; Adélaïde Feraille. 2021. "From Buildings’ End of Life to Aggregate Recycling under a Circular Economic Perspective: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Case Study." Sustainability 13, no. 17: 9625.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2021 in Applied Sciences
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Road networks are critical infrastructures within any region and it is imperative to maintain their conditions for safe and effective movement of goods and services. Road Management, therefore, plays a key role to ensure consistent efficient operation. However, significant resources are required to perform necessary maintenance activities to achieve and maintain high levels of service. Pavement maintenance can typically be very expensive and decisions are needed concerning planning and prioritizing interventions. Data are key towards enabling adequate maintenance planning but in many instances, there is limited available information especially in small or under-resourced urban road authorities. This study develops a roadmap to help these authorities by using flexible data analysis and deep learning computational systems to highlight important factors within road networks, which are used to construct models that can help predict future intervention timelines. A case study in Palermo, Italy was successfully developed to demonstrate how the techniques could be applied to perform appropriate feature selection and prediction models based on limited data sources. The workflow provides a pathway towards more effective pavement maintenance management practices using techniques that can be readily adapted based on different environments. This takes another step towards automating these practices within the pavement management system.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. Exploiting Data Analytics and Deep Learning Systems to Support Pavement Maintenance Decisions. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 2458 .

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Ronald Roberts, Laura Inzerillo, Gaetano Di Mino. Exploiting Data Analytics and Deep Learning Systems to Support Pavement Maintenance Decisions. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (6):2458.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. 2021. "Exploiting Data Analytics and Deep Learning Systems to Support Pavement Maintenance Decisions." Applied Sciences 11, no. 6: 2458.

Journal article
Published: 04 December 2020 in Information
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Road pavements need adequate maintenance to ensure that their conditions are kept in a good state throughout their lifespans. For this to be possible, authorities need efficient and effective databases in place, which have up to date and relevant road condition information. However, obtaining this information can be very difficult and costly and for smart city applications, it is vital. Currently, many authorities make maintenance decisions by assuming road conditions, which leads to poor maintenance plans and strategies. This study explores a pathway to obtain key information on a roadway utilizing drone imagery to replicate the roadway as a 3D model. The study validates this by using structure-from-motion techniques to replicate roads using drone imagery on a real road section. Using 3D models, flexible segmentation strategies are exploited to understand the road conditions and make assessments on the level of degradation of the road. The study presents a practical pipeline to do this, which can be implemented by different authorities, and one, which will provide the authorities with the key information they need. With this information, authorities can make more effective road maintenance decisions without the need for expensive workflows and exploiting smart monitoring of the road structures.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. Using UAV Based 3D Modelling to Provide Smart Monitoring of Road Pavement Conditions. Information 2020, 11, 568 .

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Ronald Roberts, Laura Inzerillo, Gaetano Di Mino. Using UAV Based 3D Modelling to Provide Smart Monitoring of Road Pavement Conditions. Information. 2020; 11 (12):568.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. 2020. "Using UAV Based 3D Modelling to Provide Smart Monitoring of Road Pavement Conditions." Information 11, no. 12: 568.

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Published: 02 September 2020 in Sustainability
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The pavement engineering industry, having realized the significance of the impacts that it imposes on the environment through the production, construction and management of its products and assets, has been driven towards a more sustainable and circular way of operating. This has partly been through asphalt recycling, which is an area that many road authorities have prioritized. However, not all the National Road Authorities (NRAs) and/or sector stakeholders seem to be adequately familiar with the Circular Economy (CE) concept. This paper attempts to assist the transition of NRAs to a more circular way of doing business, by analyzing the current situation of CE within national/regional authorities and NRAs. To do so, a questionnaire was sent to different NRAs and an online search was conducted to identify the ways that NRAs communicate their CE practices. Findings indicate that, although the majority of the NRAs are familiar with CE as a concept, not many actions have been taken so far towards its holistic implementation. Finally, there is a significant lack of CE expertise and communication within these bodies.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino; Ana Jimenez Del Barco Carrion; Elisabeth Keijzer; Björn Kalman; Tony Parry; Davide Lo Presti. European National Road Authorities and Circular Economy: An Insight into Their Approaches. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7160 .

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Konstantinos Mantalovas, Gaetano Di Mino, Ana Jimenez Del Barco Carrion, Elisabeth Keijzer, Björn Kalman, Tony Parry, Davide Lo Presti. European National Road Authorities and Circular Economy: An Insight into Their Approaches. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7160.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino; Ana Jimenez Del Barco Carrion; Elisabeth Keijzer; Björn Kalman; Tony Parry; Davide Lo Presti. 2020. "European National Road Authorities and Circular Economy: An Insight into Their Approaches." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7160.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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Today road agencies worldwide face difficult decisions for construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of their road infrastructure as they try to balance limited budgets. This is further complicated rising environmental concerns over equipment and techniques used for these practices. This has led agencies to consider alternative approaches for smarter and sustainable pavement asset management systems. This paper considers the use of a low-cost 3D image modelling distress identification and classification proposal for data acquisition and analysis. To establish its environmental friendliness, a case study in Palermo, Italy, is considered wherein a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) exercise is done. A base case using current practices is considered and compared to the optimized system to define environmental impacts. The results show the proposed methods yield both environmental and economic benefits for road agencies providing crucial savings which can be allocated to other sections of road networks in need of maintenance.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino; Laura Inzerillo; Ronald Roberts. Exploiting 3D Modelling and Life Cycle Assessment to Improve the Sustainability of Pavement Management. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1471 -1480.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas, Gaetano Di Mino, Laura Inzerillo, Ronald Roberts. Exploiting 3D Modelling and Life Cycle Assessment to Improve the Sustainability of Pavement Management. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1471-1480.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino; Laura Inzerillo; Ronald Roberts. 2020. "Exploiting 3D Modelling and Life Cycle Assessment to Improve the Sustainability of Pavement Management." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1471-1480.

Journal article
Published: 14 January 2020 in Infrastructures
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Road pavement conditions have significant impacts on safety, travel times, costs, and environmental effects. It is the responsibility of road agencies to ensure these conditions are kept in an acceptable state. To this end, agencies are tasked with implementing pavement management systems (PMSs) which effectively allocate resources towards maintenance and rehabilitation. These systems, however, require accurate data. Currently, most agencies rely on manual distress surveys and as a result, there is significant research into quick and low-cost pavement distress identification methods. Recent proposals have included the use of structure-from-motion techniques based on datasets from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and cameras, producing accurate 3D models and associated point clouds. The challenge with these datasets is then identifying and describing distresses. This paper focuses on utilizing images of pavement distresses in the city of Palermo, Italy produced by mobile phone cameras. The work aims at assessing the accuracy of using mobile phones for these surveys and also identifying strategies to segment generated 3D imagery by considering the use of algorithms for 3D Image segmentation to detect shapes from point clouds to enable measurement of physical parameters and severity assessment. Case studies are considered for pavement distresses defined by the measurement of the area affected such as different types of cracking and depressions. The use of mobile phones and the identification of these patterns on the 3D models provide further steps towards low-cost data acquisition and analysis for a PMS.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. Exploiting Low-Cost 3D Imagery for the Purposes of Detecting and Analyzing Pavement Distresses. Infrastructures 2020, 5, 6 .

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Ronald Roberts, Laura Inzerillo, Gaetano Di Mino. Exploiting Low-Cost 3D Imagery for the Purposes of Detecting and Analyzing Pavement Distresses. Infrastructures. 2020; 5 (1):6.

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Ronald Roberts; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. 2020. "Exploiting Low-Cost 3D Imagery for the Purposes of Detecting and Analyzing Pavement Distresses." Infrastructures 5, no. 1: 6.

Journal article
Published: 13 January 2020 in Sustainability
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Rising concerns about the impacts that the road engineering industry is imposing to the environment have redirected national road authorities to firmly re-consider the sustainability implications of their operations. Lately, though, sustainability has established a forceful correlation with the Circular Economy and its principles. The road engineering industry, therefore, is moving towards more circular approaches. However, this is occurring without the assessment of the potential impacts of such a transition. For this reason, in this study, a composite indicator, namely, Environmental Sustainability and Circularity indicator (ESCi), for investigating the potential effects that increased circularity could have at the environmental sustainability of asphalt mixtures is developed. It can be utilized as a decision-making support tool from stakeholders involved in both asphalt mixture production and road pavement management. In addition, in this study, four asphalt mixtures with different percentages of Reclaimed Asphalt (RA) were assessed in terms of their “cradle-to-gate” environmental impacts and circularity, by means of Life Cycle Assessment, and Material Circularity Index, respectively. Their fatigue and permanent deformation performances play a key role in the assessment and distinctive results obtained for the asphalt mixtures with increasing RA% and thus, significant environmental benefits and increased circularity are observed after specific RA% thresholds.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino. Integrating Circularity in the Sustainability Assessment of Asphalt Mixtures. Sustainability 2020, 12, 594 .

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Konstantinos Mantalovas, Gaetano Di Mino. Integrating Circularity in the Sustainability Assessment of Asphalt Mixtures. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):594.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino. 2020. "Integrating Circularity in the Sustainability Assessment of Asphalt Mixtures." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 594.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Governments are faced with countless challenges to maintain conditions of road networks. This is due to financial and physical resource deficiencies of road authorities. Therefore, low-cost automated systems are sought after to alleviate these issues and deliver adequate road conditions for citizens. There have been several attempts at creating such systems and integrating them within Pavement management systems. This paper utilizes replicable deep learning techniques to carry out hotspot analyses on urban road networks highlighting important pavement distress types and associated severities. Following this, analyses were performed illustrating how the hotspot analysis can be carried out to continuously monitor the structural health of the pavement network. The methodology is applied to a road network in Sicily, Italy where there are numerous roads in need of rehabilitation and repair. Damage detection models were created which accurately highlight the location and a severity assessment. Harmonized distress categories, based on industry standards, are utilized to create practical workflows. This creates a pipeline for future applications of automated pavement distress classification and a platform for an integrated approach towards optimizing urban pavement management systems.

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Ronald Roberts; Gaspare Giancontieri; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. Towards Low-Cost Pavement Condition Health Monitoring and Analysis Using Deep Learning. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 319 .

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Ronald Roberts, Gaspare Giancontieri, Laura Inzerillo, Gaetano Di Mino. Towards Low-Cost Pavement Condition Health Monitoring and Analysis Using Deep Learning. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (1):319.

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Ronald Roberts; Gaspare Giancontieri; Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino. 2020. "Towards Low-Cost Pavement Condition Health Monitoring and Analysis Using Deep Learning." Applied Sciences 10, no. 1: 319.

Journal article
Published: 13 April 2019 in Sustainability
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The transition of the road engineering industry to a circular way of doing business requires more efficient and sustainable resources, energy, and waste management. The rates in which reclaimed asphalt is being recycled or reused in the asphalt mixture production process constitutes a crucial parameter in this transition. This paper aims at establishing a further step towards the combined circularity and sustainability of asphalt pavements, by introducing a framework for quantifying their Material Circularity Index. The framework is based on the methodology proposed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and accordingly tailored for the context of asphalt pavements. This study, thus, attempts to provide a thorough analysis of the Reclaimed Asphalt’s recycling rates and trends on a European scale and to identify whether the efficiency of the current recycling practices is adequate or not. Moreover, a case study has been undertaken in order to quantify the Material Circularity index of the asphalt pavements forming Italy’s motorway network, following the proposed framework. For representative and accuracy reasons, the Material Circularity index of wearing, binder, and base courses has been calculated separately, and the results interestingly indicate that the base course exhibits the highest rates of circularity.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino. The Sustainability of Reclaimed Asphalt as a Resource for Road Pavement Management through a Circular Economic Model. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2234 .

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Konstantinos Mantalovas, Gaetano Di Mino. The Sustainability of Reclaimed Asphalt as a Resource for Road Pavement Management through a Circular Economic Model. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (8):2234.

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Konstantinos Mantalovas; Gaetano Di Mino. 2019. "The Sustainability of Reclaimed Asphalt as a Resource for Road Pavement Management through a Circular Economic Model." Sustainability 11, no. 8: 2234.

Journal article
Published: 18 October 2018 in Automation in Construction
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On local and urban networks, the enduring issue of scarce resources for Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction strategies (MR&R) has led, in many cases, to using unadjusted or poor techniques for road pavement distress detection and analysis, yielding ineffective or even counterproductive results. Therefore, it is necessary to have tools that can carry out quick, reliable and low-cost assessment surveys. This paper aims at validating the use of innovative and low-cost technologies for road pavement analysis, assessing their potentialities for improving the automation and reliability of distress detection. A Structure from Motion (SfM) technique is analyzed at different altitudes. The technique was applied on a distressed road pavement inside the University Campus in Palermo. The models obtained were compared with a terrestrial laser scanned 3D model to analyze the technique's metric accuracy and reliability. The results have shown that the technique accurately replicates pavement distresses, inciting an integrated approach to optimize pavement management strategies.

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Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino; Ronald Roberts. Image-based 3D reconstruction using traditional and UAV datasets for analysis of road pavement distress. Automation in Construction 2018, 96, 457 -469.

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Laura Inzerillo, Gaetano Di Mino, Ronald Roberts. Image-based 3D reconstruction using traditional and UAV datasets for analysis of road pavement distress. Automation in Construction. 2018; 96 ():457-469.

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Laura Inzerillo; Gaetano Di Mino; Ronald Roberts. 2018. "Image-based 3D reconstruction using traditional and UAV datasets for analysis of road pavement distress." Automation in Construction 96, no. : 457-469.

Journal article
Published: 25 January 2018 in Materials and Structures
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The present paper provides a basis for defining a mix design method specifically tailored to rubberised asphalt that takes into account the behaviour of crumb rubber. An analytical approach to quantifying the recovered deformation of crumb rubber in the post-compaction phase has been developed in order to adjust the number of gyrations proposed by the Superpave method for compacting specimens of hot mix asphalt using a Superpave gyratory compactor. The maximum allowable amount of rubber has been calculated. Finally, a step-by-step protocol has been proposed in order to fabricate and compact crumb rubber modified mixtures with the gyratory compactor.

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Sara Bressi; Natalia Colinas-Armijo; Gaetano Di Mino. Analytical approach for the mix design optimisation of bituminous mixtures with crumb rubber. Materials and Structures 2018, 51, 26 .

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Sara Bressi, Natalia Colinas-Armijo, Gaetano Di Mino. Analytical approach for the mix design optimisation of bituminous mixtures with crumb rubber. Materials and Structures. 2018; 51 (1):26.

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Sara Bressi; Natalia Colinas-Armijo; Gaetano Di Mino. 2018. "Analytical approach for the mix design optimisation of bituminous mixtures with crumb rubber." Materials and Structures 51, no. 1: 26.

Conference paper
Published: 04 April 2017 in 2017 Joint Rail Conference
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Railways perform a significant role in the transportation system and they have relevant environmental, economic and social impacts. They are currently engineered optimizing every singular aspect rather than considering a broader system for improving the sustainability of the overall infrastructure. Thus, it is necessary to promote an effort to define a global sustainability framework for conceiving the design, construction and management of railway infrastructure. The Sustainable Rating System (SRS) proposed in this paper is a tool under development that evaluates different alternatives of railway track-bed structure. Inspired by similar efforts in the field of road engineering such as Greenroads and Greenpave, this SRS aims to be the first entirely dedicated to support railway engineers, designers and managers in taking more responsible decisions with regards to the sustainable design and maintenance of railway track-beds. It is based on a library that examines different solutions and treatments for each element of the track-bed and a table of points that assigns different scores to the different alternatives. To achieve the highest score in terms of sustainability it is necessary to maximize the points assigned to every element. In other words, the maximum score requires adopting best practices leading to more sustainable choices such as exploiting the use of recycled materials, reducing the use of non-renewable resources, the energy consumption, air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sara Bressi; Gaetano Di Mino; Davide Lo Presti. A Framework for Defining a Sustainability Rating System for Railway Track-Beds. 2017 Joint Rail Conference 2017, 1 .

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Sara Bressi, Gaetano Di Mino, Davide Lo Presti. A Framework for Defining a Sustainability Rating System for Railway Track-Beds. 2017 Joint Rail Conference. 2017; ():1.

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Sara Bressi; Gaetano Di Mino; Davide Lo Presti. 2017. "A Framework for Defining a Sustainability Rating System for Railway Track-Beds." 2017 Joint Rail Conference , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 12 July 2016 in Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
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The aim of this paper is to propose a fractional viscoelastic and viscoplastic model of asphalt mixtures using experimental data of several tests such as creep and creep recovery performed at different temperatures and at different stress levels. From a best fitting procedure it is shown that both the creep one and recovery curve follow a power law model. It is shown that the suitable model for asphalt mixtures is a dashpot and a fractional element arranged in series. The proposed model is also available outside of the linear domain but in this case the parameters of the model depend on the stress level.

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Gaetano Di Mino; Gordon Airey; Mario Di Paola; Francesco Paolo Pinnola; Giacomo D'Angelo; Davide Lo Presti. LINEAR AND NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL HEREDITARY CONSTITUTIVE LAWS OF ASPHALT MIXTURES. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 2016, 22, 882 -889.

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Gaetano Di Mino, Gordon Airey, Mario Di Paola, Francesco Paolo Pinnola, Giacomo D'Angelo, Davide Lo Presti. LINEAR AND NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL HEREDITARY CONSTITUTIVE LAWS OF ASPHALT MIXTURES. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. 2016; 22 (7):882-889.

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Gaetano Di Mino; Gordon Airey; Mario Di Paola; Francesco Paolo Pinnola; Giacomo D'Angelo; Davide Lo Presti. 2016. "LINEAR AND NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL HEREDITARY CONSTITUTIVE LAWS OF ASPHALT MIXTURES." Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 22, no. 7: 882-889.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2016 in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements
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Sara Bressi; André-Gilles Dumont; Nicolas Bueche; Gaetano Di Mino. Towards a New Mix Design Method for Asphalt Mixtures Containing Rap. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements 2016, 270 -279.

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Sara Bressi, André-Gilles Dumont, Nicolas Bueche, Gaetano Di Mino. Towards a New Mix Design Method for Asphalt Mixtures Containing Rap. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements. 2016; ():270-279.

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Sara Bressi; André-Gilles Dumont; Nicolas Bueche; Gaetano Di Mino. 2016. "Towards a New Mix Design Method for Asphalt Mixtures Containing Rap." Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements , no. : 270-279.