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July 12, 2011

Researchers make roads without gravel or asphalt

  • The Alaska University Transportation Center is testing a patch of road made from silt, plastic fibers, glues and industrial binders.
    • By JEFF RICHARDSON
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Like alchemists with an especially grubby laboratory, researchers at the Alaska University Transportation Center have spent the past four years working to transform powder into rock.

    “We're taking this,” said AUTC director Billy Connor, sifting a handful of dusty gray material through his fingers, “and turning it into that,” he said, tossing a cylinder of hardened earth onto a lab table with a clang.


     
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