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  2. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and sometimes wood. In landscape architecture, pavements are part of the hardscape and are used on sidewalks, road surfaces, patios, courtyards, etc.

  3. Asphalt concrete - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]

  4. Macadam - Wikipedia

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    A more durable road surface (modern mixed asphalt pavement), sometimes referred to in the U.S. as blacktop, was introduced in the 1920s. Instead of laying the stone and sand aggregates on the road and then spraying the top surface with binding material, in the asphalt paving method the aggregates are thoroughly mixed with the binding material ...

  5. Sidewalk - Wikipedia

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    Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians. [5] A sidewalk is normally higher than the roadway , and separated from it by a curb . There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent land.

  6. Permeable paving - Wikipedia

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    Permeable pavement surfaces may be composed of; pervious concrete, porous asphalt, paving stones, or interlocking pavers. [1] Unlike traditional impervious paving materials such as concrete and asphalt, permeable paving systems allow stormwater to percolate and infiltrate through the pavement and into the aggregate layers and/or soil below. In ...

  7. Pavement engineering - Wikipedia

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    Pavement engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible and rigid pavements.This includes streets and highways and involves knowledge of soils, hydraulics, and material properties.

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