Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications
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Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Intermediate Level
- Approx. 8 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications at Coursera Course details
- 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.
- Total is the European leader on bitumen markets. Innovation has always been the key to sustainability and durability in the products they develop. Their main objective here is to share technical knowledge and experience to insure bitumen are being used in the most effective and efficient ways for their different applications in road works.
- Ecole des Ponts, France oldest engineering school, remains very much in the present, as it has always been, in training engineers in order to meet the needs of our society and citizens in key areas such as transport housing and urban services, but also in fields like energy, environment, climate sciences, land-use planning and sustainable development.
- Nineteen world recognized experts on bitumen are contributing to this MOOC.
- The idea is to provide the broadest prism on this topic area with speakers coming from research, industry and end users.
Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications at Coursera Curriculum
Bitumen market, generalities, the manufacture of bitumen, transport, uses of bitumen, main developments and alternatives
Introduction : reception and the MOOC challenge
Presentation and welcome to the MOOC
1- Bitumen: Origins, history, definition, terminology
2 - Bitumen manufacturing process
3 - Global bitumen market, main uses and development
4 - Application in roads: global view
5 - Interview of a toll motorway manager. Final customer expectations.
6 - Industrial application: global view
7 - Difference between bitumen, cement and coal tar
8 - Transport of bitumen - ADR Regulation-
9 - Sampling, handling and safety principles-
Presentation page of week 2
End of week 1
Constitution, structure and characterization of bitumen - specifications-rheology
10 - Composition of bitumen
11 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -1 - generalities
12 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -2 - Penetrability & Softening Point
13 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -3 - viscosity & breaking point Fraass
14 - road-construction bitumens characteristics -4 - ageing
15 - Bituminous product standards /Understanding European specifications and process for revision
16 - Viscosity based standards (ASTM D3381)
17 - Rheology of bitumens
18 - Road-construction bitumens characteristics -5- Bending Beam Rheometer and Dynamic shear Rheometer and MSCRT
19 - Superpave bitumen Specifications
20 - Global view of bitumen products standards and development
Presentation page of week 3
End of week 2 quiz
Modifications of bitumen and applications (roads, roofing,?)
21 - Polymer modified bitumens
22 - Other types of modifications of bitumen: CRMB, temperature reduction
23 - Bitumen emulsions
24 - Surface treatments
25 - Understanding design of flexible pavements and types of aggregates
26 - Laboratory testing of asphalt mix
27 - Full scale testing of asphalt mix: IFSTTAR carousel
28 - Hot mix plants, transport, laying and compaction of asphalt mix
29 - Roofing applications of bitumen - other binders and uses (clear binders,...)
Presentation page on the content of week 4
End of week 3
Health, Safety, Environment & Quality concerns regarding bitumen, and examples of research & innovation actions
30 - Dangers and risks associated with Bitumen. REACH regulation and registration of bitumen. Research and innovation to improve safety with bitumen
31 - Research and Innovation applied for recycling of asphalt pavement
32 - Research and Innovation applied for bio bitumen Algoroute program and other origins
33 - Research and Innovation applied for environmental issues and life cycle inventory (LCI)
34 - Research and Innovation applied for new tests method in bitumen characterization
35 - Road of the future: 5th generation road
Conclusion : Training final result
End of week 4 quiz
FINAL QUIZZ
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