Researchers focus on the hole picture

摘要

A team is to study the performance of pothole repairs on a simulated road in a bid to create best-practice maintenance guidelines. With the repair bill for cars damaged by the UK's potholes estimated to reach ￡ 1 bn in 2011, researchers from Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham University have been awarded funding from the Institution of Civil Engineers to undertake a six-month research project into pothole repair work. 'Potholes are a sign of major underlying structural problems. In theory, we should be doing structural rehabilitation - but because of budget and time constraints there will often have to be patch repairs,' said Nottingham Trent's Dr Mujib Rahman.