Sustainable Issues in Transportation Engineering: Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE) [1st ed. 2020] 978-3-030-34186-2, 978-3-030-34187-9

Table of contents :
Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
In-Situ Monitoring of Ground Subsidence at the Intersection of Expwy 78 and High Speed Rail of Taiwan During 2003–2011 (Muhsiung Chang, Ren-Chung Huang, Po-Kai Wu)....Pages 1-15
Improving Performance of Testing Laboratories – A Statistical Review and Evaluation (G. I. Anastasopoulos, P. S. Ramakrishnan, I. G. Anastasopoulos)....Pages 16-34
Novel Approach for Designing the Deployment of Urban Wifi Based on an Urban 3D Model and a Web Tool (Iñaki Prieto, Jose Luis Izkara, Sara Diez, Mauri Benedito)....Pages 35-48
Project Application of BDS + Automatic Monitoring and Early Warning Technology for the Risk Assessment of Reconstruction Highway Cutting Slope (Qiang Yan, Lijia Tian, Lin Liu)....Pages 49-60
Electre Method – Decision-Making Tool for the Analysis of the Roads Technical State (Toma Mihai Gabriel, Ungureanu Roxana Daniela)....Pages 61-71
Site Characterization of Al-Burrulus Clay Formations (Ahmed M. Nasr, Amr F. Elhakim, Mohamed I. Amer)....Pages 72-91
Visual Inspection Based Maintenance Strategy on Unsealed Road Network in Australia (Vasantsingh Pardeshi, Sanjay Nimbalkar)....Pages 92-103
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Flexural Behaviour of Composite Bearers in Railway Switches and Crossings (Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Pasakorn Sengsri, Andre Luis Oliveira de Melo)....Pages 104-113
Information Communication Technologies for Travel in Southern African Cities (N. Bashingi, M. Mostafa Hassan, D. K. Das)....Pages 114-127
Risk Analysis of Drivers’ Distraction: Effect of Navigation Tools (Jacob Adedayo Adedeji, Xoliswa E. Feikie, Mohamed M. H. Mostafa)....Pages 128-140
Back Matter ....Pages 141-141

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Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

Louay Mohammad Ragaa Abd El-Hakim Editors

Sustainable Issues in Transportation Engineering Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

Sustainable Civil Infrastructures Editor-in-Chief Hany Farouk Shehata, SSIGE, Soil-Interaction Group in Egypt SSIGE, Cairo, Egypt Advisory Editors Khalid M. ElZahaby, Housing and Building National Research Center, Giza, Egypt Dar Hao Chen, Austin, TX, USA

Sustainable Infrastructure impacts our well-being and day-to-day lives. The infrastructures we are building today will shape our lives tomorrow. The complex and diverse nature of the impacts due to weather extremes on transportation and civil infrastructures can be seen in our roadways, bridges, and buildings. Extreme summer temperatures, droughts, flash floods, and rising numbers of freeze-thaw cycles pose challenges for civil infrastructure and can endanger public safety. We constantly hear how civil infrastructures need constant attention, preservation, and upgrading. Such improvements and developments would obviously benefit from our desired book series that provide sustainable engineering materials and designs. The economic impact is huge and much research has been conducted worldwide. The future holds many opportunities, not only for researchers in a given country, but also for the worldwide field engineers who apply and implement these technologies. We believe that no approach can succeed if it does not unite the efforts of various engineering disciplines from all over the world under one umbrella to offer a beacon of modern solutions to the global infrastructure. Experts from the various engineering disciplines around the globe will participate in this series, including: Geotechnical, Geological, Geoscience, Petroleum, Structural, Transportation, Bridge, Infrastructure, Energy, Architectural, Chemical and Materials, and other related Engineering disciplines.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15140

Louay Mohammad Ragaa Abd El-Hakim •

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Sustainable Issues in Transportation Engineering Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

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Editors Louay Mohammad Louisiana State University Louisiana, LA, USA

Ragaa Abd El-Hakim Tanta University Tanta, Egypt

ISSN 2366-3405 ISSN 2366-3413 (electronic) Sustainable Civil Infrastructures ISBN 978-3-030-34186-2 ISBN 978-3-030-34187-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34187-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

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In-Situ Monitoring of Ground Subsidence at the Intersection of Expwy 78 and High Speed Rail of Taiwan During 2003–2011 . . . . . . Muhsiung Chang, Ren-Chung Huang, and Po-Kai Wu

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Improving Performance of Testing Laboratories – A Statistical Review and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. I. Anastasopoulos, P. S. Ramakrishnan, and I. G. Anastasopoulos

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Novel Approach for Designing the Deployment of Urban Wifi Based on an Urban 3D Model and a Web Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iñaki Prieto, Jose Luis Izkara, Sara Diez, and Mauri Benedito

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Project Application of BDS + Automatic Monitoring and Early Warning Technology for the Risk Assessment of Reconstruction Highway Cutting Slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiang Yan, Lijia Tian, and Lin Liu Electre Method – Decision-Making Tool for the Analysis of the Roads Technical State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toma Mihai Gabriel and Ungureanu Roxana Daniela Site Characterization of Al-Burrulus Clay Formations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ahmed M. Nasr, Amr F. Elhakim, and Mohamed I. Amer Visual Inspection Based Maintenance Strategy on Unsealed Road Network in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vasantsingh Pardeshi and Sanjay Nimbalkar

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Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Flexural Behaviour of Composite Bearers in Railway Switches and Crossings . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Pasakorn Sengsri, and Andre Luis Oliveira de Melo

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Information Communication Technologies for Travel in Southern African Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 N. Bashingi, M. Mostafa Hassan, and D. K. Das Risk Analysis of Drivers’ Distraction: Effect of Navigation Tools . . . . . 128 Jacob Adedayo Adedeji, Xoliswa E. Feikie, and Mohamed M. H. Mostafa Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

About the Editors

Dr. Louay Mohammad is a national and international expert in the area of pavement materials and sustainable asphalt construction. He is the holder of the Irma Louise Rush Stewart Distinguished Professor and the Transportation Faculty Group Coordinator at Louisiana State University (LSU). He also serves as Director of the Engineering Materials Characterization and Research Facility at the Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC). He teaches and conducts research in the areas of highway construction materials, pavement engineering, accelerated pavement testing, advanced material characterization and modeling, and infrastructure sustainability. He has served as PI or Co-PI on more than 58 research projects (NCHRP Project 9-40 and 9-40A, NCHRP Project 9-48, NCHRP 9-49A, NCHRP 10-84, NCHRP Project 20-07/Task 361, etc.) totaling over US $12.4 million. He has authored/co-authored more than 270 publications in pavement engineering including over 150 refereed papers and delivered over 170 keynote and invited presentations at national and international conferences. He has developed many standard test methods (AASHTO TP 114, AASHTO TP 115, and Louisiana DOTD TR 330) and mechanistic models that have impacted pavement material characterization and performance, and contributed to changes of asphalt specifications. He is Chair of ASTM subcommittee D 4.25 on Bituminous Mixture Analysis, Past Chair of the TRB Committees AFK40 on Characteristics of Bituminous-Aggregate Combinations to Meet Surface

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Requirements and Member of TRB Committee AFK50 on Characteristics of Bituminous Paving Mixtures to Meet Structural Requirement, and TRB Committee AFK30 on Characteristics of Non-Asphalt Components of Asphalt Paving Mixtures. He currently serves as Flexible Pavement Section Editor of ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Research and International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. He has been recognized with the 2013 Best Paper Award of the 8th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, 2010 Distinguished Research Paper of the Journal of Engineering Research, the 2009, 2012, and 2015 Asphalt Rubber Ambassador Award, and the 2002 Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists Board of Directors Award of Recognition.

Ragaa Abd El-Hakim, PhD Assistant Professor, Tanta University, Public Works Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt, PH: +201008258088. E-mail: [email protected] Ragaa Abd El-Hakim is Assistant Professor at Tanta University, Egypt. She received a BSc degree with honor in civil engineering (structural engineering) from Tanta University, Egypt. She pursued her MSc and PhD degrees at Tanta University in civil engineering (public works engineering). She worked as Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, from June 2010 until January 2014. She started working in Tanta University since 2014, and she was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University in the academic year 2017/2018. She has taught many undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her research interests focus on pavement material characterization and modeling, mechanistic-empirical pavement design methods, and traffic characteristics.

In-Situ Monitoring of Ground Subsidence at the Intersection of Expwy 78 and High Speed Rail of Taiwan During 2003–2011 Muhsiung Chang1(&), Ren-Chung Huang2, and Po-Kai Wu1 1

Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Yunlin, Taiwan {changmh,wupokai}@yuntech.edu.tw 2 Graduate School of Science and Technology, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Yunlin, Taiwan [email protected]

Abstract. This paper discusses results of a long-term onsite monitoring on ground subsidence and soil compressibility at the intersection of Expressway (Expwy) 78 and the High-Speed Rail of Taiwan (THSR). The intersection area is located on the Chuoswei River Alluvial Fan-Delta (CRAFD), the largest and thickest alluvial deposit to the mid-west of the island. The CRAFD has been subjected to serious subsiding problems for decades because of excess extractions of groundwater for agricultural and industrial usages. The constructions of Expwy 78 and THSR in the late 1990s imposed additional loadings on the soft ground and accelerated the subsidence problem, which was becoming a threat to the safety of THSR. An 8-year onsite monitoring program at the intersection was conducted between 10/2003 and 12/2011. The subsidence and compression of soils were measured through multi-leveled magnetic rings installed in the ground along boreholes of 300-m deep, as well as a GPS station and several level-surveying benchmarks. Results indicate the ground subsidence in the intersection area was 55.7 cm for the entire deposit in the 8-year monitoring period without the loadings of Expwy 78 and THSR. The loadings of Expwy 78 embankment and THSR piers/viaducts would contribute additional subsidence of 9.4 cm and 5.5 cm, respectively, to the ground in the same period. The total subsidence in the 8-year period was 70.6 cm, with an average rate of 8.6 cm/yr. Further analysis of the compression in soils with depth 350 m). • To be noted, the contributions of various factors on the subsidence cannot be fully addressed based solely on the results of 8-year monitoring. In viewing that Expwy 78 embankment and THSR piers/viaducts were constructed in separated stages and started prior to the 8-year monitoring, the influences by Expwy 78 and THSR loadings would only be partially reflected in the period considered in this study. • The monitored compressions in soils reveal the shallower deposit (depth