During the four coming weeks, best experts in bitumen will bring you their knowledge and experience to build a strong understanding of today’s realities and new perspectives on the future of bitumen.
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Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications
École des Ponts ParisTech
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Approx. 10 hours to complete
Suggested: 4 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week
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École des Ponts ParisTech
École des Ponts ParisTech, may be France’s oldest engineering school (since 1747), but it remains young and very much in the present, as it has always been, in training talented, innovative future leaders in order to transform today’s realities and build tomorrow’s world in key areas of day-to-day life, such as transport, housing, and urban services, and also in foundational fields like energy, environment, climate sciences, spatial planning or sustainable development…
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
Bitumen market, generalities, the manufacture of bitumen, transport, uses of bitumen, main developments and alternatives
Origins, history, definition, terminology | market per geographical areas, figures of consumption, main producers, capacities of production, ranking, main flows between areas | global development of motorised transport - cars, airplane - was one of the single most development of 20-21st centuries | global development of buidings, roofing and other applications of bitumen | difference between bitumen, cement and tar coal. Advantages and drawback of each | different ways of transport of bitumen and present the supply chain diagram and restrictions. ADR Regulation | sampling, handling and safety principles. Hazard from handling hot bitumen is thermal burns.
2 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 67 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
11 videos
Presentation and welcome to the MOOC3m
1- Bitumen: Origins, history, definition, terminology6m
2 - Bitumen manufacturing process5m
3 - Global bitumen market, main uses and development7m
4 - Application in roads: global view7m
5 - Interview of a toll motorway manager. Final customer expectations.5m
6 - Industrial application: global view8m
7 - Difference between bitumen, cement and coal tar6m
8 - Transport of bitumen - ADR Regulation-8m
9 - Sampling, handling and safety principles-4m
1 reading
Presentation page of week 210m
1 practice exercise
End of week 116m
2 hours to complete
Constitution, structure and characterization of bitumen - specifications-rheology
Schematic constitution and structure of bitumen, relationship between structure and rheology | Performance tests | Bitumen 3 states | Penetration test EN 1426 & Softening Point EN 142 | viscosity measurement EN 12596, EN 12595, Explanation of breaking point Fraass measurement EN 12593 | testing Binder after RTFOT, after RTFOT and PAV | Euopean specifications and process of revision | Viscosity based standards (ASTM D3381 | Deformation and flow. Elasticity, plasticity, visoc-elasticity. Newtonian, Non-Newtonian behaviour. Stress-strain response, shear modulus and phase angle. | Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) and Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR) | Superpave specifications.
2 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 78 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
11 videos
11 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -1 - generalities6m
12 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -2 - Penetrability & Softening Point7m
13 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -3 - viscosity & breaking point Fraass6m
14 - road-construction bitumens characteristics -4 - ageing12m
15 - Bituminous product standards /Understanding European specifications and process for revision10m
16 - Viscosity based standards (ASTM D3381)5m
17 - Rheology of bitumens6m
18 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -5- Bending Beam Rheometer and Dynamic shear Rheometer and MSCRT7m
19 - Superpave bitumen Specifications4m
20 - Global view of bitumen products standards and development3m
1 reading
Presentation page of week 310m
1 practice exercise
End of week 2 quiz18m
2 hours to complete
Modifications of bitumen and applications (roads, roofing,…)
Modifications using polymers. Performance of PmB. Elastic recovery test. | of types of modifications of bitumen: CRMB, warm mix asphalt, temperature reduction | Bitumen emulsions, their components, manufacture, storage, handling, properties, classification, uses | surface treatments | design of pavements and types of aggregates | fundamental tests, the simulative tests (fatigue test, rutting test, giratory compactor,…) | interest of full scale testing of asphalt mix: example of IFSTTAR carousel | Hot mix plants, transport, laying and compaction of asphalt mix | physical characteristics and industrial applications for sealing.
2 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 68 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
9 videos
22 - Other types of modifications of bitumen: CRMB, temperature reduction6m
23 - Bitumen emulsions9m
24 - Surface treatments7m
25 - Understanding design of flexible pavements and types of aggregates7m
26 - Laboratory testing of asphalt mix9m
27 - Full scale testing of asphalt mix: IFSTTAR carousel6m
28 - Hot mix plants, transport, laying and compaction of asphalt mix6m
29 - Roofing applications of bitumen - other binders and uses (clear binders,...)5m
1 reading
Presentation page on the content of week 410m
1 practice exercise
End of week 320m
2 hours to complete
Health, Safety, Environment & Quality concerns regarding bitumen, and examples of research & innovation actions
Dangers and risks involved with road-building bitumens | Dangers and risks involved with industrial bitumens. | Innovation in the frame of safety with bitumen | Research and Innovation applied for recycling of asphalt pavement, of the use of waste asphalt pavement containing bitumen and not tar, for manufacturing new product.| Research and Innovation applied for bio bitumen Algoroute program and other origins of bitumen | Research and Innovation applied for environmental issues and life cycle inventory (LCI | Key areas for the Research and Innovation applied for bitumen new tests methods | Road of the future:: 5th generation road.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 53 min)
7 videos
31 - Research and Innovation applied for recycling of asphalt pavement7m
32 - Research and Innovation applied for bio bitumen Algoroute program and other origins9m
33 - Research and Innovation applied for environmental issues and life cycle inventory (LCI)6m
34 - Research and Innovation applied for new tests method in bitumen characterization9m
35 - Road of the future: 5th generation road6m
Conclusion : Training final result2m
2 practice exercises
End of week 4 quiz18m
FINAL QUIZZ48m
Reviews
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TOP REVIEWS FROM MASTERING BITUMEN FOR BETTER ROADS AND INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS
by KAMar 1, 2020
Course improved my knowledge on bitumen history, characteristics and applications but their should be complete delivering of knowledge on modern techniques about Marshal stability and super pave.
by MASep 14, 2019
Its a good course covering information about bitumen market, its specifications, properties, safety and much more. I would recommend this course to students and people working in road sectors.
by MAJan 10, 2017
The course is really help full and it contains all the topics and things about bitumen, by taking this course I am sure you will never faced to problem relaying to bitumen.
by FHJul 19, 2019
one of the best courses I've ever taken\n\nit enhances my knowledge in asphalt work\n\nI would like to thank every effort and every person helped to make this course work.
by MMMay 21, 2018
Very useful and interesting course! I suggest all engineers and researchers to take this course as a good source for reviewing and improving their knowledge in this field.
by IHJun 11, 2018
Except third week, all were very informative and interesting, But the third week has some very boring videos, unable to understand at all.
by HSJan 14, 2017
It's really interested and useful course for those highways engineers, specially whom involve in pavement design and implementation!
by BLJun 30, 2016
I must pursue with this course to learn more about bitumen which is widely use as construction material for roads.
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