Project description
Roads get a new lease on life
Most roads around the world are made from so-called bituminous materials, including asphalt and tar. These dense and dark residues of hydrocarbons are among the oldest construction materials, yet they still face interrelated challenges in terms of durability and cost. The EU-funded FHBMicro project is out to characterise the detailed microscopic fatigue damage and healing mechanisms of bituminous materials. Insight will be used to develop innovative new bituminous materials with self-healing and anti-fatigue properties to significantly extend the service life of roads. This will simultaneously decrease costs while preserving petroleum resources and reducing the emissions associated with the production of bituminous materials and the repair or replacement of roads.
Objective
FHBMicro aims to train a talented young researcher through an interdisciplinary research focused on investigating the microscopic mechanisms of fatigue damage and healing of bituminous materials (BMs) to fundamentally extend the materials’ service life. The main deliverables resulting from the FHBMicro include a better understanding of the microscopic mechanisms of the BMs’ fatigue damage and healing, a trans-scale performance prediction framework and evaluation protocol of the fatigue and healing of the BMs, and an implementation of anti-fatigue and self-healing BMs and technologies in durable and sustainable road construction. Through the project, the Fellow will receive intensive scientific knowledge training in multidisciplinary field of chemistry (TUD), material science (TUD), computational modelling (TUD and RWTH), experimental characterisation (UoN) and industrial applications (Nynas and Duro Vermeer). The Fellow will also receive inter-sectoral complementary skills training in project management, intellectual property protection, teaching and supervision, and networking. The benefits brought by FHBMicro are represented by strengthening the EU scientific excellence and industry leadership in the innovation, evaluation and engineering application of the durable and sustainable road materials. The implementation of anti-fatigue and self-healing BMs and technologies in road infrastructures will extend the road service life and ultimately save natural resources like petroleum bitumen and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Uniquely, the project will enable the Fellow to obtain interdisciplinary knowledge and inter-sectoral complementary skills by building a new and exciting research field, which will pave a solid foundation for the Fellow towards his career of being an independent leading researcher in the area of durable and sustainable infrastructure materials in a top European university, with a Europe-linked collaborative network.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
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