Highways : the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements / edited by C.A. O'Flaherty.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: A historical overview of the development of the road / C. A. O'Flaherty 1. Road location / C. A. O'Flaherty 2. Subsurface investigations / C. A. O'Flaherty 3. Plans, specifications and contracts / A. Boyle 4. Soils for roadworks / C. A. O'Flaherty 5. Materials used in road pavements / M. J. Brennan, C. A. O'Flaherty 6. Soil-stabilized pavements / C. A. O'Flaherty 7. Surface drainage for roads / C. A. O'Flaherty 8. Subsurface moisture control for road pavements / C. A. O'Flaherty 9. Introduction to pavement design / C. A. O'Flaherty 10. Earthworks and unbound bases for pavements / C. A. O'Flaherty 11. Premixed bituminous-bound courses: standard materials / M. J. Brennan, C. A. O'Flaherty 12. Design and construction of hot-mix bituminous surfacings and roadbases / S. E. Zoorob 13. Concrete pavement construction / C. A. O'Flaherty 14. Current British thickness design practice in relation to new bituminous and concrete pavements / C. A. O'Flaherty 15. Analytical design of flexible pavements / J. McElvaney, M. S. Snaith 16. Analysis of stresses in rigid concrete slabs and an introduction to concrete block paving / J. Knapton 17. Basic road maintenance operations / J. E. Oliver 18. Wet skid resistance / A. R. Woodside, W. D. H. Woodward 19. Design and use of surface treatments / H. A. Khalid 20. Structural maintenance of road pavements / D. McMullen, M. S. Snaith Index.