State-of-the-Art Survey of Advanced Materials and Their Potential Application in Highway Infrastructure

摘要

The purpose of this study was to identify and assess new materials that could have beneficial and cost-saving applications in transportation and to determine if any developmental work needed to be undertaken to bring the applications of such materials to fruition. To ensure the search for new materials was thorough, a wide scope was used to identify and create a list of candidate materials. The only limitations were that a material could not be a complex device, such as a micro-electromechanical system, and that in the future the material could benefit VDOT.