The Tenth International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (10th BCRRA 2017) was held from June 28-30, 2017—with pre-conference workshops occurring Tuesday, June 27—at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Greece. The International Society for Concrete Pavements was an official scientific supporter of this conference. There were over 400 registered attendees from over 40 countries. The 2017 Conference was hosted by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Technical University of Athens, and TUDelft. Dr. Jeffery Roesler, ISCP President and Professor-CEE Associate Head; Director of Graduate Studies and Research-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Associate Director-ATREL, gave a keynote lecture on “Airport Pavements: Reflections on 20 years of Design, Material, and Construction Innovation”. Other ISCP participants included Dr. John Harvey, Professor-CEE-UC Davis and former ISCP Board Director; Dr. Lev Khazanovich, Professor CE-University of Minnesota; Dr. David Brill, Program Manager for Airport Pavement–FAA; and Sam Tyson, Concrete Pavement Engineer-FHWA.
The BCRRA has been held every four years since 1982. The 10th BCRRA 2017 covered aspects related to materials, laboratory testing, design, construction, maintenance and management systems of transport infrastructure focusing on roads, railways and airfields. Additional aspects that concern new materials and characterization, alternative rehabilitation techniques, technological advances as well as pavement and railway track substructure sustainability will be included. Providing a unique opportunity to interact and exchange and share information amongst researchers, practicing engineers and other professionals, BCRRA 2017 welcomed experts in the field from all over the world who exchanged their views and experiences, and discussed new concepts and innovative solutions.
The Conference will include aspects of transportation infrastructure focusing on roads, railways and airfields. These and other topics included the following:
- Policies on the bearing capacity of roads, railways and airfields
- Unbound aggregate materials and soil properties
- Bound materials characteristics, mechanical properties and testing
- Traffic loading
- Field measurement techniques and analysis tools
- Pavement field evaluation
- Correlation of laboratory and field testing results
- Monitoring and assessment of roads, railways and airfields structures
- Geophysical methods for structural evaluation
- Pavement surface condition and performance assessment
- Maintenance and preservation
- Reinforcement and rehabilitation design
- Analysis of Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) data
- Drainage and environmental effects
- Climate change, energy and sustainability
- Emerging technologies
- Life cycle analysis
- Non-standard pavements
- Case histories of roads, railways and airfields
All papers were presented in oral and poster sessions, and will be published by CRC-Taylor & Francis Group—indexed in EI and Scopus. Accepted Conference paper submissions, in extended format, have the potential to be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue(s) to be published by the International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE).
For the 10th BCRRA 2017 information and all of the previous conferences (1-9) please go to the BCRRA WEBSITE: http://www.bcrra2017.com/.
For the PDF of the Conference BROCHURE, please go to: http://www.bcrra2017.com/img/BCRRA2017_brochure.pdf.