Projects financed by the Commission :: Project file
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SAMARIS
Sustainable and Advanced Materials for Road Infrastructures
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| Domain | Road and Tunnel Infrastructure |
| Duration | from 12/2002 until 11/2005 |
| Website | http://samaris.zag.si/index.htm |
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Pavement stream
The primary means by which the project will contribute are by encouraging a greater use of recycled components in pavement materials and by the explicit consideration of environmental performance in the design.
The second key objective is to prepare for the harmonisation of European approaches of material specification within the next generation of CEN standards. This will involve moving from a recipe approach, which puts much emphasis on the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents, to a performance-based approach of the in-place products, which allows consideration to be made irrespective of the type of material.
Structural stream
The maintenance of concrete structures, be it pre-emptive or for repair or strengthening, is a heavy burden for society not only in financial terms but also as a major potential disturbance of civil systems. The structures part of the project is specifically targeted to support the EU policy to improve the highway structure maintenance with respect to greater efficiency and durability of the applied procedures, resulting in reduced number of necessary road closures. This will lead to considerable reduction of associated costs and increase users' safety. Special attention will be given to the Central European (CE) countries where condition of the highway structures may differ from the EU situation.
