Alex Klein-Paste
Background and activities
Research interests:
- Winter maintenance of roads and runways
- snow plowing, gritting and salting
- Tire-snow/ice interaction (friction)
Education:
- TBA4340 Rehabilitation and maintenance of roads (5th year MSc course)
- BA6061 Maintenance and operation of roads (Experience based master program)
- BA8617 Maintenance and operation of roads in cold climates (PhD course)
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
2020
- (2020) Chemical Frost Protection of Road Surfaces: A Laboratory Investigation. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2674 (1).
- (2020) Influence of NaCl Aqueous Solution on Compacted Snow: Field Investigation. Journal of cold regions engineering. vol. 34 (1).
- (2020) Effect of Temperature and Prewetting for Ice Penetration with Sodium Formate. Transportation Research Record.
2019
- (2019) Tire-Pavement Interaction in Contact with Salted Snow: How an Aqueous Solution Affects Compression, Squeeze-Out, and Compaction of Snow. Journal of cold regions engineering. vol. 33 (4).
2018
- (2018) Uniaxial compression on salted snow. Tire Science and Technology. vol. 46 (1).
- (2018) Airplane braking friction on dry snow, wet snow or slush contaminated runways. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 150.
- (2018) The Effect of Additives on the Low Temperature Ice-Melting Capacity of NaCl. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2672 (12).
2017
- (2017) Use of calorimetry to measure ice-melting capacity. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2613.
- (2017) A salty safety solution. Physics world. vol. 30 (12).
- (2017) The effect of mass diffusion on the rate of chemical ice melting using aqueous solutions. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 139.
2016
- (2016) Accuracy of Ice Melting Capacity Tests - Review of Melting Data for Sodium Chloride. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2551.
- (2016) Measuring bicycle braking friction in winter conditions. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 125.
- (2016) Chemical Melting of Ice: Effect of Solution Freezing Point on Melting Rate. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2551.
- (2016) Ice contact-bonding in air and in the presence of an aqueous sodium chloride solution. Journal of cold regions engineering. vol. 30 (4).
2015
- (2015) A decision support model to assess the braking performance on snow and ice contaminated runways. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 117.
- (2015) Effect of surface roughness and chemistry on ice bonding to asphalt aggregates. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 120.
- (2015) Influence of Microstructure on the Consolidation of Compressed Snow. Journal of cold regions engineering. vol. 29 (2).
- (2015) Temperature dependence of solution-induced weakening of compacted snow. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2482.
- (2015) The effect of common de-icing chemicals on the hardness of compacted snow. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 109.