Review ArticleReview of advanced road materials, structures, equipment, and detection technologies
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Dr. Maria Chiara Cavalli is currently an assistant professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She focuses on designing bio-based sustainable materials in pavement engineering.
Dr. De Chen is currently an associate professor and master's supervisor of Southwest Jiaotong University. He graduated from Chang'an University, and had studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a national railway youth post expert, a core member of the Railway Engineering Course Group Virtual Teaching and Research Room of the First National Virtual Teaching and Research Room, a member of the youth science and technology innovation research team of environmental system simulation and big data analysis in Sichuan Province, and a leader of the youth innovation research team of Green Development and Engineering Innovation. He has been selected as Southwest Jiaotong University's esteemed Young Eagle Program and Green Seedling Program. He was named the second Young Pioneers. Also, he is a provincial quality (first-class) course lecturer. At present, he is engaged in the teaching and research of road and railway engineering in the School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University. He has published more than 30 high-level academic papers. Also, he has been authorized more than 20 national patents.
Dr. Qian Chen is currently a lecturer and master supervisor of Chang'an University. He is the Young Key Talents Program of Chang'an Scholars. His research focuses on green functional pavement materials and high-performance road maintenance materials.
Dr. Yu Chen is currently a professor at Chang'an University. He focuses on pavement structure design and pavement material performance evaluation.
Dr. Augusto Cannone Falchetto is currently an assistant professor at Aalto University, Finland. His research focuses on infrastructure materials and pavement engineering and combines experimental research, advanced analysis and modelling. He has made outstanding contributions to the field throughout his career, which is evident in his widely published and cited work. As an active RILEM member, he has been involved in several technical committees and contributed to state-of-the-art reports, technical papers and recommendations. Based on the sound application of scientific principles, his research has developed solid practical relevance and attracted recognition through numerous awards, such as the prestigious Robert L'Hermite.
Dr. Mingjing Fang is currently serving as the associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests are in pavement and alignment of road & railway engineering, including paving engineering, subgrade improvement, high-performance construction material, asphalt-based trackbed, and intelligent construction.
Dr. Hairong Gu is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Chang'an University. His research focuses on road construction machine and technology.
Dr. Zhenqiang Han is currently a lecturer and master supervisor of Chang'an University. His research focuses on numerical simulation, accelerated pavement testing, and integrated design of road engineering materials and structure. He is selected into the Young Talent Program of Association for Science and Technology in Xi'an of China, and serves as the principal investigator for the projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and National Key R&D Program of China.
Mr. Zijian He is currently a PhD student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research mainly focuses on pavement materials.
Dr. Jing Hu is currently an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of Southeast University. His research focuses on high performance materials and intelligent detection of pavement.
Dr. Yue Huang is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, UK. After completing his PhD at Newcastle University in 2007, Dr. Huang started his career as a research engineer at Scott Wilson (now AECOM) until 2011. His previous employments include the University of Nottingham where he worked as a research fellow in 2011–2012. Before he joined ITS, Dr. Huang was a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University between 2012 and 2018. He has been involved in winning and delivering a number of research projects in the UK, EU and overseas since 2004. Dr. Huang has a number of highly cited publications in reputable international journals. He has 10 years of experiences in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, module/programme (including MOOC) development, and PhD supervision. Dr. Huang is a chartered engineer (CEng) and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Dr. Wei Jiang is currently a professor of pavement engineering at the School of Highway, Chang'an University. His research has focused on the theories and methods of green pavement materials and structures, green energy transformation of pavements. Dr. Jiang led over 14 national and provincial projects, including the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists, National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China, etc.
Dr. Xuan Li is currently a lecturer of Chang'an University and a postdoctoral fellow of Zhejiang Prulde Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. His research focuses on hot in-place recycling technology and equipment for asphalt pavement.
Dr. Chaochao Liu is currently a lecturer and master supervisor of Changsha University of Science & Technology. He is selected as Huxiang Youth Science and Technology Innovation Talents. His research interests include materials and structure for civil engineering, engineering mechanics, and green and smart maintenance of asphalt pavement in service.
Dr. Pengfei Liu is the junior professor (W1) in modeling and design of functionalized pavement materials at the Institute of Highway Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Dr. Liu received his doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University in 2017. His main research area is multiscale modelling and characterization of pavement materials. He has published more than 130 SCI papers as well as 4 books. He serves as an academic editor for 5 technical journals and a reviewer for 63 SCI journals. Dr. Liu has been recognized with 2017 Excellent Self-funded Student Scholarship of the Ministry of Education P. R. China. He won the RWTH Aachen-Tsinghua Senior Research Fellowships in 2019. And he received the Outstanding Associate Member Award from the Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE) in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded the title of “Excellent Early Career Scientist from Germany” by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC).
Dr. Quantao Liu is currently a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests focus on self-healing asphalt mixtures and asphalt anti-aging technology.
Dr. Guoyang Lu is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests mainly include intelligent transportation infrastructural materials and technologies, simulation of pavement structures and materials, and nondestructive evaluation of transportation infrastructure.
Dr. Yuan Ma is currently an assistant researcher at the School of Transportation, Southeast University. His major research areas are digital road engineering and digital twin technology.
Dr. Lily Poulikakos received her BS in architectural engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, MS in civil engineering from University of Illinois, USA, and PhD in civil engineering from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently a senior scientist at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Her research focus is on using multi scale characterization methods to study innovative bituminous materials chemically and mechanically with a focus on low noise pavements and the use of waste and marginal materials for roads. Dr. Poulikakos is a leading member of several RILEM technical committees. She is the author of over 140 publications in peer reviewed journals and editor of Elsevier journal Construction and Building Materials (CBM).
Dr. Jinsong Qian is currently a professor of Tongji University. His research focuses on intelligent construction and maintenance technologies for highway and airfield.
Dr. Aimin Sha is the professor of highway engineering at the School of Highway, Chang'an University. He is the vice chairman of China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS). Prof. Sha focuses on road materials, pavement design theory, construction quality control, eco-friendly pavements, sustainable transportation and smart pavements. His researches were supported by NSFC, “973” Program, National Key R&D Program of China, etc. He was awarded by the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2009 and 2013, respectively.
Dr. Liyan Shan is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology. She is also a national level young talent. Her research focuses on rheology of asphalt materials, genome of road materials, in-situ characterization technology of road materials, resource utilization of solid waste on road surface, road protection and repair technology.
Dr. Zheng Tong received his PhD degree from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France in 2022. Since then, he has been an associated professor with School of Transportation, Southeast University, China. His research interests include Dempster-Shafer theory, ground penetrating radar, nondestructive testing, and deep learning applied to pavement engineering inspection.
Dr. B. Shane Underwood is a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Underwood's research and education program focuses on materials and their interaction with society and the natural and built environments. This program pursues research, education, and service activities that evaluate, inform, and shape the science of these interactions, particularly how material decisions influence the use, function, and impact of civil infrastructure.
Dr. Chao Wang is a professor of the College of Metropolitan Transportation in Beijing University of Technology. His research topic is mainly focused on the performance modeling of asphalt pavement.
Dr. Chaohui Wang is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of Chang'an University, as well as the leader of Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Teams in Shaanxi Province. He is selected as the world's top 2% scientists 2022, and the Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Leading Talent of the Ministry of Transport. His research focuses on green functional pavement materials, intelligent power generation pavement technology, high-performance road maintenance materials, high value utilization technology of solid waste resources.
Dr. Di Wang is currently a post-doc researcher at Aalto University, Finland. He was appointed as an assistant professor and Canadian Research Chair Tier 2 in Cold Region Roads at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests focused on the sustainable materials and structure of asphalt roads, and cold region roads.
Dr. Haopeng Wang is currently a lecturer in structural engineering materials in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Liverpool. He received his PhD degree from Delft University of Technology in September 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow sponsored by EU's Horizon 2020 at the University of Nottingham. His research interests include multiphysics modelling of pavement materials and structures, polymer physics and chemistry, micromechanics of infrastructure materials, damage mechanisms in asphalt mixture (fracture, fatigue and healing), and sustainable pavement materials and technologies. He has an internationally recognized track record of publications in the fields of sustainable asphalt materials and engineering mechanics.
Dr. Xuebin Wang is a lecturer of Chang'an University. His research focuses on asphalt-pavement milling and rock cutting mechanism, unmanned and intelligent of construction machine.
Dr. Chengwei Xing is a lecture of Chang'an University. His research areas include bitumen aging and reclamation of recycled bitumen pavement. He is selected into the Young Talent Program of Association for Science and Technology in Shaanxi of China, and serves as the principal investigator for the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Dr. Xinxin Xu is a lecture of Chang'an University. Her research focuses on the mechanism of heat transfer in road surfaces during hot in-place recycling technology and equipment.
Dr. Min Ye is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Chang'an University, dean of School of Construction Machinery, director of the China Construction Machinery Society and the China Construction Machinery Industry Association, the chairman of the Hydraulic Technology Branch, the vice chairman of Transportation Equipment Branch of CHTS, the leader of Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi University, and Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents in Scientific and Technological Innovation in Shaanxi Province. His research focuses on battery management system, battery state estimation, and vehicle power optimization control.
Dr. Huanan Yu is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Changsha University of Science & Technology. His research focuses on the design and characterization of pavement material, pavement construction quality intelligent monitor and compaction, funcational pavement.
Dr. Huayang Yu is currently an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of South China University of Technology. His research focuses on sustainable and intelligent pavement structure and material.
Dr. Zhe Zeng is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on characterizing damage mechanisms and predicting the behavior of asphalt materials and pavements. Building upon this foundation, he extends his work to include material modification, improvements in pavement design, and the development of performance models.
Dr. You Zhan is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University. His main research interests include pavement skid resistance and road traffic safety, intelligent detection and evaluation of pavement service performance, intelligent maintenance management and decision-making of road infrastructure, and functional pavements.
Mr. Fan Zhang is currently a doctoral researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University, Finland. His research interests focused on the sustainable road maintenance methods, multiple recycing of asphalt materials, and solid waste applications in road engineering.
Dr. Henglong Zhang is a professor of College of Civil Engineering at Hunan University. His research interests include research and development and application of new pavement materials, durability theory and technology of pavement materials, and recycling technology of waste pavement materials.
Dr. Wenfeng Zhu is currently a lecturer of Chang'an University, postdoctoral fellow of Wuhu Hit Robot Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. His research focuses on hydraulic transmission and control, and hydraulic robotics.
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Authors contributed equally to this paper and are listed in alphabetical order of the last names.