Cinzia Maggiore
Marie Curie Early Years Stage Researcher, Faculty of Engineering
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Biography
Cinzia Maggiore is PhD student on the Marie Curie TEAM Initial Training Programme at the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC), Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham.
She earned her Bachelor's Degree in the Department of Engineering of Road Infrastructures (DIIV) at the University of Palermo. Her Bachelor's thesis was about geometric road design and safety of an urban road intersection. She then moved to Porto in Portugal (for 7 months), on an Erasmus scholarship to attend some courses for the first semester of her Master course. During this time she attended and passed the exams of Traffic and Transport, Transport Systems, Earth works, Underground works, Statistics and Bridges.
Her Master's thesis covered fatigue testing of bituminous mixtures using the 4 Point Bending test.
In May 2010, she joined the Training in European Asset Management (TEAM) Project as PhD student. The aim of the project is to improve understanding of fatigue damage and healing in asphalt materials using dissipated energy approaches. During her PhD, an exchange with IFSTTAR in Nantes is already planned for a few months.
Research Summary
Flexural fatigue is one of the main failure modes in asphalt mixtures and flexible pavement structures, so a good prediction of the fatigue life of the pavement will help to develop and improve… read more
Current Research
Flexural fatigue is one of the main failure modes in asphalt mixtures and flexible pavement structures, so a good prediction of the fatigue life of the pavement will help to develop and improve pavement design procedures.
The primary research goal of this project is better understand fatigue behaviour, based on the dissipated energy approach in asphalt. Healing phenomenon is also considerd. The main experimental work is based on tension compression tests, 2 and 4 point bending tests·
The research methodology for this study involves the following major tasks: literature Review about fatigue and healing, comparison and evaluation of the different approaches that characterise the fatigue behaviour and healing behaviour in different mixtures for different parameters, with particular attention to the dissipated energy approaches.