Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation
Design and Management Strategies

Design and apply the appropriate pavement material to mitigate the effect of Heat Islands in Urban and Rural Environments

Hui Li (Author)

9780128034767

Paperback, published 26 August 2015

388 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg

About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g. albedo, permeability, thermal conductivity, heat capacity and evaporation rate) are measured in many cases using newly developed methods.

AcknowledgementsTable of Contents List of Tables List of FiguresChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Literature Review Chapter 3 Problem Statement and Study Methodologies Chapter 4 Experimental Sections and Field Measurement of Albedo Chapter 5 Field Measurement of Permeability for Permeable Pavements Chapter 6 Laboratory Testing for Thermal Properties of Pavement Materials Chapter 7 Measurement of Evaporation Rate for Different Materials Chapter 8 Field Measurement of Pavement Thermal Performance Chapter 9 Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Near-surface Air Chapter 10 Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Building Surfaces Chapter 11 Development and Validation of Local Thermal Modeling Chapter 12 Simulation of Thermal Behavior of Cool Pavement Strategies Chapter 13 Impacts of Pavement Strategies on Human Thermal Comfort Chapter 14 A Model Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Pavement Strategies onBuilding Energy Use Chapter 15 Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations References Appendices

Subject Areas: Transport technology & trades [TR], Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN], Materials science [TGM]