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Recycled Plastics in Asphalt Pavements: Current Evidence and Practice
Recycled plastic is being pitched as an asphalt additive, and the marketing has moved faster than the research. The course sorts out what the completed studies actually found, drawing on the national laboratory study of dry-process addition (NCHRP Research Report 1143), the TR...
Recycled Binder Availability: Testing, Design, and Specification
Some of the binder in reclaimed asphalt pavement stays trapped inside its particles and never blends into the new mixture. Standard volumetric design assumes all of it does. Measured availability runs anywhere from about 40 to 100 percent, while agencies that apply any discoun...
Living Shorelines: Monitoring, Adaptive Management, and Emerging Practice
This course covers the monitoring, inspection, and adaptive management of living shorelines projects, drawing on engineering guidance developed for coastal practitioners in alignment with ASCE MoP 130 and New Jersey regulatory frameworks. The course addresses the three-part tr...
Living Shorelines: Nature-Based Techniques — Reefs, Coir, and Beach Nourishment
This course covers three nature-based living shoreline techniques — living reef breakwaters, coir mats and logs, and beach and shoreface nourishment — examining the design parameters, constructability considerations, and adaptive management requirements for each approach. Draw...
Living Shorelines: Marsh Sill and Breakwater Design and Application
This course introduces the engineering principles and design methodology of living shorelines, drawing on guidance developed for coastal practitioners in alignment with USACE natural and nature-based features frameworks and New Jersey Coastal General Permit 24. The course cove...
Living Shorelines: Site Assessment and Engineering Design Fundamentals
This course draws on engineering guidance developed for practicing coastal engineers to introduce the principles and design methodology of living shorelines as an alternative to traditional hard shoreline stabilization. The course covers site assessment, the four categories of...
Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) in Modern Highway Construction
This course draws on the NCHRP Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) in Modern Highway Construction synthesis to examine how state DOTs specify and use SCMs in concrete pavements and structures. The course covers conventional SCMs (fly ash, slag cement, silica fume), nat...