Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation : Design and Management Strategies.

Front Cover -- PAVEMENT MATERIALS FOR HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- 1.1 HEAT ISLAND EFFECT -- 1.2 POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF HEAT ISLANDS -- 1.3 CAUSES OF HEAT ISLANDS -- 1.4 POTENTIAL MITIGATION MEASURES FOR HEAT ISLANDS -- Chapter 2 - Literature Review on Cool Pavement Research -- 2.1 COOL PAVEMENTS AND COOLING MECHANISMS -- 2.2 SUMMARY OF RESEARCH RELEVANT TO COOL PAVEMENTS -- 2.3 LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT -- 2.4 SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE GAPS -- Chapter 3 - Scope, Methodologies, and Organization -- 3.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT -- 3.2 STUDY GOAL AND SCOPE -- 3.3 STUDY OBJECTIVES -- 3.4 TASKS AND METHODOLOGIES -- 3.5 ORGANIZATION OF THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF THIS BOOK -- Chapter 4 - Reflective Pavements and Albedo -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 OBJECTIVES -- 4.3 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXPERIMENTAL SECTIONS -- 4.4 MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY FOR ALBEDO -- 4.5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ON ALBEDO -- 4.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5 - Permeable Pavements and Permeability -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 METHODS -- 5.3 RESULTS -- 5.4 DISCUSSION -- 5.5 IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 5.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 6 - Thermal Resistance Pavements and Thermal Properties -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 THEORETICAL MODEL FOR SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE -- 6.3 ANALYTICAL SOLUTION FOR SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION -- 6.4 CASE STUDY FOR SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS -- 6.5 PROCEDURE FOR BACK-CALCULATION OF THERMAL PROPERTIES -- 6.6 CASE STUDY FOR BACK-CALCULATION OF THERMAL PROPERTIES -- 6.7 THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACE MATERIALS USED IN EXPERIMENTAL SECTIONS -- 6.8 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 7 - Evaporation Rate and Evaporative Cooling Effect of Pavement Materials -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION.

7.2 MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 7.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 7.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 8 - Thermal Performance of Various Pavement Materials -- 8.1 OBJECTIVES -- 8.2 METHODOLOGY -- 8.3 THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS PAVEMENTS IN DIFFERENT SEASONS -- 8.4 THERMAL BEHAVIOR AND COOLING EFFECT OF PERMEABLE PAVEMENTS UNDER DRY AND WET CONDITIONS -- 8.5 THERMAL IMAGES OF EXPERIMENTAL PAVEMENT SECTIONS -- 8.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 9 - Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Near-Surface Air -- 9.1 OBJECTIVES -- 9.2 MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY -- 9.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 9.4 MODELING OF NEAR-SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE PROFILE -- 9.5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 10 - Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Building Surfaces -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY -- 10.3 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 10.4 MODELING AND SIMULATION -- 10.5 SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 10.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 11 - Pavement Thermal Modeling: Development and Validation -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 OVERVIEW OF THE INTEGRATED LOCAL MICROCLIMATE MODEL -- 11.3 DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE GENERAL LOCAL MICROCLIMATE MODEL -- 11.4 SIMPLIFIED MODEL FOR THERMAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PAVEMENT AND NEAR-SURFACE AIR -- 11.5 MODEL VALIDATION -- 11.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 12 - Simulation of Thermal Behavior of Design and Management Strategies for Cool Pavement -- 12.1 SIMULATION USING THE SIMPLIFIED MODEL -- 12.2 EXAMPLE SIMULATION RESULTS -- 12.3 SIMULATION-BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS USING THE SIMPLIFIED MODEL -- 12.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 13 - Impacts of Pavement Strategies on Human Thermal Comfort -- 13.1 MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE -- 13.2 SHADING -- 13.3 THERMAL COMFORT INDEX -- 13.4 HUMAN BODY ENERGY BALANCE MODELING.

13.5 EXAMPLE CALCULATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE -- 13.6 EVALUATION OF OUTDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENT USING PHYSIOLOGICAL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE -- 13.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 14 - A Model Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Pavement Strategies on Building Energy Use -- 14.1 OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE -- 14.2 PRELIMINARY MODEL -- 14.3 THERMAL LOAD -- 14.4 LIMITATIONS -- 14.5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 15 - Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations -- 15.1 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- 15.2 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF COOL PAVEMENT STRATEGIES -- 15.3 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE STUDY -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- INDEX.

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