TY - BOOK AU - O'Flaherty,C.A. AU - Boyle,A. AU - O\'Flaherty,C.A. TI - Highways: the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements SN - 9780750650908 (pbk.) : AV - TE145 .H54 2002 U1 - 625.7 OFL PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford PB - Butterworth-Heinemann KW - Highway engineering KW - Transport KW - ukslc KW - Civil engineering, surveying & building KW - thema KW - Highway & traffic engineering N1 - Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 1986; Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 1998; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.Road location -- 2.Subsurace investigations - 3.Plans, specifications and contracts -- 4.Soils for roadworks -- 5.Materials used in road pavements -- 6.Soil-stabilized pavements -- 7.Surface drainage for roads -- 8.Subsurface moisture control for road pavements -- 9.Introduction to pavement design -- 10.Earthworks and unbound bases for pavements -- 11.Premixed butuminous-bound courses: standard materials -- 12.Design and construction of hot-mix bituminous surfacings and roadbases -- 13.Concrete pavement construction -- 14.Current British thickness design practice in relation to new bituminous and concrete pavements -- 15.Analytical design of flexible pavements -- 16.Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concete block paving -- 17.Basic road maintenance operations -- 18.Wet skid resistance -- 19.Design and use of surface treatments -- 20.Structural maintenance of road pavements N2 - A comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering, from the planning stages through to the design, construction and maintenance of road pavements, this edition has been expanded and updated to take into account developments in the field ER -