scholarly journals Performance evaluation of stone mastic asphalt mixture with different high viscosity modified asphalt based on laboratory tests

2019 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaofei Luo ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Peilong Li ◽  
Jianhua Yang ◽  
Xiangbing Xie
2019 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Chen ◽  
Chaohui Wang ◽  
Penghui Wen ◽  
Xiaolong Sun ◽  
Tengteng Guo

Author(s):  
Ekarizan Shaffie ◽  
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H.A. Rashid ◽  
Fiona Shiong ◽  
Ahmad Kamil Arshad ◽  
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Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) is a gap-graded hot mixture designed to provide higher resistance towards permanent deformation and rutting potential by 30% to 40% more than dense-graded asphalt, due to its stable aggregate skeleton structure. However, compared to other types of hot mix asphalt, SMA unfortunately has some shortcomings in term of its susceptibility towards moisture-induced damage due to its structure and excessive bitumen content in the composition. This research aims to assess the performance of a SMA mixture with steel fiber by enhancing overall stability, abrasion resistance, and, most importantly, moisture susceptibility. This study involved the incorporation of various steel fiber proportions of 0%, 0.3%, 0.5% and 0.7% by the total weight of mixture. The steel fiber modified SMA was made up of 6.0% PEN 60/70 bitumen content. The performance of SMA were evaluated through Marshall stability and flow test, Cantabro loss test and indirect tensile strength test. The results obtained from the testing showed that the incorporation of steel fiber is significantly effective to enhance the resistance towards moisture damage, while increasing the stability and reducing the abrasion loss of SMA mixture, compared to conventional mixture. Overall, it can be concluded that the addition of steel fiber in asphalt mixture specifically SMA, has improved the mechanical performance in the application of asphalt pavement with the optimum steel fiber proportion of 0.3% by the weight of mixture. The developed models between the independent variables and responses demonstrated high levels of correlation. The study found that Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is an effective statistical method for providing an appropriate empirical model for relating parameters and predicting the optimum performance of an asphaltic mixture to reduce flexible pavement failure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Gardziejczyk ◽  
M. Wasilewska

AbstractThe aggregate applied for the wearing course has a significant influence on skid resistance of road surfaces. However, it is difficult to evaluate the behaviour of road surface in use on the basis of the Polished Stone Value (PSV) determined for the aggregate according to the so called ‘British method’. The British method, which is currently used in many countries, does not allow to determine the influence of neither the grain size of the aggregate nor the type of the wearing course on skid resistance of road surface. The present paper suggests a method for evaluation of the British Pendulum Number (BPN) for road surfaces in laboratory conditions. The authors assumed the BPN for polished slabs, made from asphalt mixtures, as the criterion. The index was measured with the British Pendulum Tester. The simulation of the process was conducted on research stand (called slab polisher) built at Bialystok University of Technology (BUT). The results of laboratory tests indicate that surfaces from asphalt concrete (AC) have slightly higher values of BPN in comparison with the values determined for surfaces made from stone mastic asphalt (SMA).


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jian Xu ◽  
Yan Gong ◽  
Li-Biao Chen ◽  
Tao Ma ◽  
Jun-Cheng Zeng ◽  
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Aiming to evaluate the high-temperature performance of asphalt binders and asphalt mixtures and to investigate the reliability of the standard technical indexes to evaluate the performance of the asphalt, six typically used asphalt types were employed in this study. The standard high-temperature rheological test, the multiple stress creep recovery (MSCR) test, and the zero-shear viscosity (ZSV) test were employed to characterize the high-temperature performance and non-Newtonian fluid properties of the asphalt. Meanwhile, the high-temperature performance of the asphalt mixture was evaluated through the rutting tests based on the mixture design of AC-13. In general, the modified asphalt performed better than the unmodified asphalt according to the high-temperature rheological properties tests. The ranking of the six kinds of asphalt was confirmed to be different in various laboratory tests. The test results of the asphalt binders showed that the Tafpack Super- (TPS-) modified asphalt performed best in the MSCR and ZSV tests, while the low-grade asphalt PEN20 had the best technical indexes in the dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) test. Besides, the relation between the asphalt and the asphalt mixture was analyzed by gray relational analysis (GRA) method. The present rutting indicator G ∗ / sin   δ  and  G ∗ / 1 − sin   δ ⋅   tan   δ − 1 for evaluating the asphalt mixtures’ high-temperature performance might no longer be suitable. The Cross/Williamson model was the most suitable for calculating and fitting the ZSV, which could be used as the key indicator of the high-temperature performance evaluation of the asphalt. This work lays a foundation for the further study of the high-temperature performance evaluation of asphalt binders.


2021 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
Ekarizan Shaffie ◽  
Hanis Eizzati Ahmad ◽  
Ahmad Kamil Arshad ◽  
Wardati Hashim ◽  
Haryati Yaacob ◽  
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Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Yang ◽  
Jun Xie ◽  
Xiaojun Zhou ◽  
Quantao Liu ◽  
Ling Pang

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huachen Liu ◽  
Yikun Chen ◽  
Yongjie Xue

In this paper, recycled cellulose diacetate (rCDA) derived from cigarette butts was used as a fiber stabilizer to develop stone mastic asphalt (SMA) mixtures. The characterizations of rCDA were investigated by scanning electron microcopy (SEM), a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), and a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). Volumetric stability, temperature stability, moisture stability, and fatigue performance of SMA mixtures with rCDA were tested to obtain the pavement performance. Results showed that rCDA appeared to have a tough surface texture with a curly and corrugated structure, which facilitated the enhancement of the cohesion bond with the asphalt binder. TG-DTG indicated that the maximum weight loss (62.48%) obtained at temperatures ranging from 294.1°C to 376.0°C was due to decomposition and degradation of organic matters. When 0.4% rCDA was used in the asphalt mixture, the dynamic stability was 4,105 cycles/mm. The ultimate flexural strength and flexural stiffness modulus were 3,722 MPa and 9.7 MPa. It indicated that the temperature stability of 0.4% rCDA was superior to 0.3% polyacrylonitrile fiber (PAN), while inferior to 0.3% polyester (PET). The value of tensile strength ratio and residual Marshall stability were 80.2 and 75.3%, respectively. The fatigue life of 0.4% rCDA was technically like that of 0.3% PAN and 0.3% PET at lower stress levels. All results concluded that the optimum content of rCDA in asphalt mixtures was 0.4% by mass of the binder.


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