
Cedric VuyeUniversity of Antwerp | UA · Faculty of Applied Engineering
Cedric Vuye
Doctor in Engineering Sciences
About
108
Publications
26,687
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
900
Citations
Introduction
Cedric Vuye is an associate professor in the Faculty of Applied Engineering, research group SuPAR (Sustainable Pavements and Asphalt Research). He is the primary supervisor of 2 completed PhDs and 4 ongoing PhD studies: 1) use of crumb rubber in bitumen and asphalt, 2) thermal and structural analysis of asphalt solar collectors, 3) impact of noise-reducing measures, and 4) photocatalytic asphalt pavements using TiO2. He has published 91 publications and acquired over €2.7 million.
Additional affiliations
June 2004 - September 2013
Publications
Publications (108)
Solar energy harvesting as a renewable and sustainable energy source has been widely investigated in recent years across engineering fields. The use of Pavement Solar Collectors (PSC) can lead to clean energy production, an increase in road safety, prolong the service life of asphalt pavement, and can mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Th...
Road traffic noise measurements, such as the Statistical Pass-By method (SPB) described in ISO 11819-1, are pivotal in assessing this noise pollution problem. As temperature is a primary cause of uncertainty in tyre/road noise measurements, the SPB method results need to be temperature corrected. The ISO 11819-1 standard is currently being revised...
Low-noise thin asphalt layers (TALs) are a feasible solution to mitigate road traffic noise in urban environments. Nevertheless, the impacts of this type of noise intervention are reported mostly regarding noise levels, while non-acoustic aspects influencing the population perception are still little-known. This study investigates the implementatio...
Bitumen, also called asphalt binder, is the key component in asphalt mixtures. Studies to investigate the microstructure of this material show a rich morphology, especially the formation of bee structures in bitumen containing wax. Most research in this field has investigated these microstructures using commercial image processing software that nee...
This paper investigates the application of surrogate modelling in the design and thermal response assessment of Pavement Solar Collectors (PSCs). The PSC system is a sustainable infrastructure solution that utilises both solar and shallow geothermal energy. PSCs incorporate a network of pipes embedded in the asphalt layer to create a heat exchange...
The citizen science initiative "De Oorzaak" invited adult residents of Flanders (Belgium) to fill out the "Large Sound Survey", gathering over 8,000 answers in a month. This comprehensive 51-question survey evaluated annoyance levels across various transportation modes, drawing on established questionnaires like the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Weinst...
Over time, bitumen experiences deterioration due to factors like the exposure to oxygen, solar irradiation, and temperature fluctuations. While laboratory techniques like rolling thin film oven (RTFO) and pressure ageing vessel (PAV) were developed to simulate field ageing, they do not accurately replicate environmental factors normally occurring i...
Noise barriers are path interventions between noise sources and human receivers used mainly along road corridors to improve the acoustic environment for affected residents. Despite their widespread use, the impact of these interventions on community perception is still insufficiently investigated. This paper presents findings from a longitudinal st...
The resilience of pavements depends not only on asphalt mixture performance and structural design but also on the bonding between two adjacent pavement layers and interlayer performance as well as on traffic and environmental conditions. This paper thus aims to assess the impacts of several parameters on the interface shear resistance. Accordingly,...
Resilience in general captures the goals of maintaining the continuity of performance and recovery to the desired function during an infrastructure designated service life. Nevertheless, pavement infrastructure is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to being continuously exposed to outdoor conditions. Constructing a pavemen...
This study presents a novel methodology for estimating the master curve of the complex modulus of viscoelastic materials using a combination of optical measurement systems and ultrasonic excitation. Traditional techniques for characterizing properties of viscoelastic materials are often time-consuming and encounter limitations that hinder their acc...
Crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) is a promising solution for recycling waste tyres and improving asphalt performance. Nonetheless, higher temperatures are usually required during mixing, which increases the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can potentially cause harmful health effects on workers due to their toxic and carcinoge...
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in bitumen fumes pose health risks to workers. Adding end-of-life tire crumb rubber (CR) to bitumen increases VOC emissions. To promote cleaner asphalt production, recycled materials like cementitious materials, activated carbon, zeolite, and geopolymers were incorporated into crumb rubber modified bitumen and expl...
Environmental noise control regulations typically employ noise level descriptors to set limits for noise exposure. However, other characteristics of noise, such as frequency content, temporal patterns and masking, have been proven to influence the perception of acoustic environments. In this sense, psychoacoustic indicators offer an objective means...
Road traffic noise is the most common source of community noise in urban areas, causing adverse impacts on the health and well-being of the exposed population. Therefore, mastering road traffic noise perception is key to tackling noise pollution. Vehicle noise is mainly produced by the tyre/pavement interaction, especially for light vehicles, which...
The last two decades have seen a growing trend toward energy harvesting technologies from asphalt pavements, mainly to discover a suitable replacement for fossil fuels to tackle the high demand for energy due to global population rise, urbanization, and environmental problems. Energy extraction from asphalt pavements, using Pavement Solar Collector...
Roads are exposed to solar radiation for the entire duration of their service life; depending on the season, the intensity and level of exposure can vary for different locations leading to differences in the magnitude of the damage. In Australia, many local road authorities have already started understanding that their roads are deteriorating faste...
The temperature profile significantly influences the structural performance of asphalt pavement since it influences various mechanical parameters such as stiffness, strength, and fatigue life. The present study aims to achieve two main objectives. Firstly, to explore the potential of Machine Learning (ML) approaches in predicting asphalt pavement p...
Although the cohesive zone model (CZM) provides numerous advancements in simulating the crack initiation and evolution in asphalt mixes, its efficiency and applicability are still challenging. This is because asphalt mixes are principally assumed to be homogeneous in CZM modeling despite intrinsic heterogeneity. Therefore, it is essential to calibr...
A set of road traffic pass-by noises containing more than 2000 vehicles was recorded following the Statistical Pass-By (SPB) methodology (ISO 11819-1:2022). Besides the acoustic descriptors, psychoacoustic indicators (loudness, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength) were retrieved for each pass-by of the three vehicle categories defined in the...
Pavement surface characteristics have been gaining relevance with the changing mobility paradigm as they greatly contribute to the degree of safety, comfort, environmental quality and long lasting pavements. The surveillance methods of pavement surface characteristics have evolved from manual to semi- and automated methods and also to more cost-eff...
Crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) is a promising solution for recycling waste tyres and improving asphalt performance. Nonetheless, higher temperatures are usually required during mixing, which increases the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can potentially cause harmful health effects on workers due to their toxic and carcinoge...
Estimating the complex modulus of bituminous materials is essential for sustainable and high-quality pavement design. The existing methods to estimate this property are often time-consuming and employ traditional sensors which conduct measurements on a few spots. In this research, an experimental setup is proposed to estimate the complex modulus of...
Numerous factors may disrupt pavement construction including human errors and unforeseen changes in the environmental conditions. These incidents can shorten pavement life span. New technologies recently came to the aid of contractors and road agencies to detect and possibly mitigate undesirable impacts of unpredictable incidents during the asphalt...
It is known that pollutants and their irreparable influence can considerably jeopardize the environment and human health. Such disastrous, growing, hazardous particles urged researchers to find effective ways and diminish their destructive impacts and preserve our planet. This study evaluates the potential of incorporating Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) s...
Modifying bitumen for road construction using crumb rubber (CR) from end-of-life tires has potential in European countries due to government support for recycling this material. However, the addition of CR can increase the volatile organic compounds (VOC) emission during pavement construction, which can cause harmful health effects on workers due t...
The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
Exposure to excessive (road) traffic noise can result in sleep deprivation, increased stress, and even heart diseases. Accordingly, accurately determining the acoustic quality of different pavement types is crucial for implementing noise-reducing measures such as low-noise pavements. In this regard, the ISO 11819-1:1997 standard, which describes th...
An improved test is proposed to determine the fatigue resistance of bituminous mortars by applying time-sweep cyclic (oscillatory) tests using a dynamic shear rheometer (DSR). To evaluate its applicability, a bituminous mortar mixture derived from a dense asphalt concrete (AC) mix was utilized. The objectives of this study were twofold; firstly, to...
The need for stable, chemical resistant and conductive materials is on the rise in recent times. Graphene shows promising electrical conductivity and chemical stability, but the production of a continual, conductive layer is limited and expensive. Silver nanowires (AgNWs) are both conducive and economically viable, but they are sensitive to water a...
The crumb rubber (CR) from end-of-life tyres has become a common additive to bitumen due to its capacity to improve the mechanical properties of bituminous binders in terms of high-temperature stability. This study aims to investigate the influence of adding CR into a bituminous binder using the wet process by relating the microstructural character...
p>Road traffic is the most widespread environmental noise source in Europe, proven to affect human health and well-being adversely. Noise barriers can be a very effective way to objectively reduce the noise levels to which the population is exposed, leading to positive effects on noise perception and quality of life. In this paper, surveys were use...
The assessment of thermal performance and efficiency of the Pavement Solar Collector (PSC) systems is essential in designing such systems. In this paper, a simplified simulation model is developed to predict PSC's performance at the design stage. Due to its simplicity, accuracy, and extremely quick simulation run-time, the model output can be linke...
In recent years, harvesting solar energy as a renewable and sustainable energy source has been studied extensively across engineering fields. Having reviewed more than 50 large-scale projects of Hydronic Asphalt Pavement (HAP), this paper offers a series of findings: the range of construction cost of asphalt collector varies between 25-151 €/m² and...
In October 2017 a large-scale prototype for a Heat Exchanging Asphalt Layer (HEAL)
was constructed in a cycling path, together with other innovative technologies, such as
Fibre Bragg Gratings to monitor the stress and strains, and fiber-reinforced asphalt in
the top layer. The HEAL prototype consists of 30 m², 8.5 m x 3.5 m, and includes four
circu...
The impact of aging on asphalt binder depends on multiple factors including binder type and environmental conditions. In a previous study, Shalaby proposed two empirical equations to investigate the effects of extended short-term aging on the shear modulus and phase angle of asphalt binders. The objective of this study was to use a robust mathemati...
Transparent binder is used to substitute conventional black asphalt binder and to provide light-colored pavements, whereas nano-TiO2 has the potential to promote photocatalytic and self-cleaning properties. Together, these materials provide multifunction effects and benefits when the pavement is submitted to high solar irradiation. This paper analy...
Estimating the master curve of the complex modulus of asphalt mixtures is essential for high quality and sustainable mixture and pavement design. There are multiple standard methods to estimate this master curve using hydraulic-pneumatic testing machines. These methods are complex to perform, need expensive equipment, and have constraints over the...
Transparent binder is used to substitute conventional black asphalt binder and to provide light-colored pavements, whereas nano-TiO2 has the potential to promote photocatalytic and self-cleaning properties. Together, these materials provide multifunction effects and benefits when the pavement is submitted to high solar irradiation. This paper analy...
Bitumen is one of the most important materials used in roads. During asphalt pavement construction, workers can be affected by emissions, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), when bitumen is heated. Therefore, it is crucial to correctly identify and measure VOCs. This paper presents a novel, promising method to determine VOC emissions. The pr...
Several factors affect asphalt binder and mixture characteristics. This makes pavement performance assessment a mounting task. This paper evaluates the effects of short-term aging on compactibility and volumetric properties of asphalt mixtures using the Response Surface Method (RSM). Three different binders were utilized to produce mixtures (type A...
Heavy-duty pavements have met new challenges over the past decades. Many pavements were not designed for servicing today's traffic frequency and axle loads, which impose loads much greater than those initially considered. Both factors result in an accelerated deterioration of the pavement structure. The accurate measurement of the strain and stress...
Asphalt mixtures are the most common types of pavement material used in the world. Characterizing the mechanical behavior of these complex materials is essential in durable, cost-effective, and sustainable pavement design. One of the important properties of asphalt mixtures is the complex modulus of elasticity. This parameter can be determined usin...
Industrial waste causes environmental, economic, and social problems. In Morocco, the Jorf Lasfar Thermal Power Station produces two types of coal ash with enormous quantities: fly ash (FA) and Bottom ash (BA). FA is recovered in cement while BA is stored in landfills. To reduce the effects of BA disposal in landfills, several experimental studies...
Pavement design is essentially and usually a structural long-term evaluation process which is needed to ensure that traffic loads are efficiently distributed at all levels of the total road structure. Furthermore, to get a complete analysis of its durability behavior, long-term monitoring should be facilitated, not only from the top by falling weig...
The fatigue performance and healing ability of asphalt pavements are important for mixture design, rehabilitation, and maintenance of the roads. By analyzing these parameters in an asphalt mixture, it is possible to predict the crack formation and propagation in asphalt pavements and healing of these cracks during the rest periods. The healing effe...
Road pavement develops distresses over time, which increase tyre/road noise. This work focuses on the impact of these distresses on environmental noise. To calculate the environmental noise, a method to transform Close ProXimity (CPX) measurement results into the required input for traffic noise models was defined and used. The tyre/road noise leve...
The utilization of Reclaimed Asphalt (RA) in the road construction sector induces considerable economic and ecological benefits. The blending of the recycled material with new components is believed to be of great importance for the mixture's properties. An extensive knowledge of the blending of the materials is crucial in optimizing the use of RA,...
In 2015, the ROAD_IT project initiated the development and demonstration of an integrated and coherent IT process control system for the Flemish asphalt sector in order to modernize existing asphalt paving technologies and to obtain real-time data to monitor pavement behavior. One of the demonstration test tracks is CyPaTs, the construction of a bi...
Impact of noise reducing measures such as noise barriers and Thin noise reducing Asphalt layers (TAL) on the quality of life of residents living closeby
A laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) is a noncontact optical measurement device to measure the vibration velocities of particular points on the surface of an object. Even though LDV has become more popular in road engineering in recent years, their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is strongly dependent on light scattering properties of the surface which, in...
Improper attention to construction joints in a building may lead to localized cold spots on the inside surfaces of the building and air leakage through the envelope. This in turn can affect the thermal comfort of residents due to small-area radiant asymmetry and low-speed draft.
The effect of these two local discomfort events on thermal comfort wer...
The scope of the present case study was to monitor Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) system based on the in-situ pavement sensors. FBG chains of 30 DTG® (2 fibers), 5 DTG® (4 fibers) and two temperature sensors were embedded in three asphalt layers of a flexible pavement, with a cross section configuration in the CyPaTs bicycle path at UAntwerpen, Belgium...
In the present study, a new approach to the installation of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors in three asphalt pavement layers (the surface layer and both base layers) was implemented for the first time in Belgium. Fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBGs) are diagnostic tools that accurately and efficiently monitor in situ structural behavior. However, n...
The scope of the present case study was to test fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBG) installation in three asphalt layers: the surface layer and both base layers. FBG is a diagnostic tool to monitor accurately and efficiently in-situ structure behavior. However, this technology is not commonly used in asphalt due to its application restrictions under...
Climate change, limited resources, limited space and increasing energy demand are only a few of the challenges in order to reach a sustainable built environment. These challenges do not end at the boundaries of the building or infrastructure as illustrated by e.g. electric mobility, district heating and recycling of building materials. Next to buil...
In cold and moderate climates, poorly designed construction joints can lead to local low surface temperatures, which entails local radiant asymmetry. An experiment was set up to test the hypothesis that overall and local thermal sensation is influenced by local radiant asymmetry. Another hypothesis under investigation was that local cooling of the...
There are three main methods to improve thermal comfort in existing buildings: modeling, experiments and measurements. Regarding experiments, no standardized procedure exists. This article provides an answer to the question: “What is the most common practice for human thermal comfort experiments in (semi-)controlled environments?”. A total of 166 a...
De Universiteit Antwerpen introduceert de niet-nucleaire densiteitmeter (Transtech PQI 380) als hulpmiddel bij de sturing van het asfaltverdichtingsproces op de werf. Deze densiteitsmeter laat toe het verdichtingsproces te volgen na de asfaltverwerkingsmachine en de walsovergangen. De technologie van dit type instrument wordt momenteel in Vlaandere...
After the first rehabilitation of runway 07R/25L in 2015, runway 01/19 was reconstructed in the summer of 2016, as part of a cycle where all runway pavements at Brussels airport are completely renovated each thirty years. The top layer is a Marshall asphalt with a polymer modified bitumen. To optimize the water drainage the central part of the runw...