High-tech highway
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A Smart Road, a two-mile stretch connecting the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Tech to Interstate 81 near Blacksburg, VA, houses technology and research facilities. The project may enable transportation engineers to design better pavement and roads that last longer.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1999
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Road Test
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This article describes testing track for pavement designs constructed at the National Center for Asphalt Technology at the Auburn University, Alabama. The track is about 1.8 miles used to simulate pavement performance over 10- to 20-year period under actual loading conditions.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 2000
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Wind turbine shaken on world's first outdoor table
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The largest shake table in the United States was tested with a shake of a 70 feet high wind turbine lasting 40 seconds. This was the first ever test of a wind turbine and this has opened the opportunity to physically validate many construction systems.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 2005
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