Coupled System Pavement - Tire - Vehicle: A Holistic Computational Approach

Michael Kaliske, Ronny Behnke, Felix Hartung, Ines Wollny.- Numerical Simulation of Asphalt Compaction and Asphalt Performance.- Computational Methods for Analyses of Different Functional Properties of Pavements.- Experimental Methods for the Mechanical Characterization of Asphalt Concrete at Different Length Scales: Bitumen, Mastic, Mortar and Asphalt Mixture.- Experimental and Simulative Methods for the Analysis of Vehicle-Tire-Pavement Interaction.- Characterization and Evaluation of Different Asphalt Properties Using Microstructural Analysis.- Numerical Friction Models Compared to Experiments on Real and Artificial Surfaces.- Multiscale Computational Approaches for Asphalt Pavements under Rolling Tire Load.- Simulation Chain: From the Material Behavior to the Thermo-mechanical Long-term Response of Asphalt Pavements and the Alteration of Functional Properties (Surface Drainage).