scholarly journals Sustainability Evaluation of Cold In-Place Recycling and Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements: A Case of Qassim, Saudi Arabia

Coatings ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Fawaz Alharbi ◽  
Fahad Alshubrumi ◽  
Meshal Almoshaogeh ◽  
Husnain Haider ◽  
Ahmed Elragi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Hot Mix Asphalt ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Equivalent Thickness ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
Cold Recycling

The construction of conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavements results in a number of economic and environmental issues, such as the cost of new overlays and associated impacts on natural resources. Although the cold recycling with an emulsified asphalt-recycling agent holds certain benefits over the HMA, its implementation on different road types, ranging from farm-to-market roads to expressways, is yet contentious due to the need for sophisticated equipment and trained workforce. The present research developed a methodology to evaluate all the three dimensions of sustainability, including economic (construction cost), environmental (natural resource depletion), and social (need for advanced equipment and skilled labor) of various scenarios of RAP and conventional asphalt pavements. The present study evaluated an equivalent thickness of the Cold In-place Recycling (CIR) pavement, which behaves similar to HMA pavement under the influence of different traffic loads. Fifty CIR and HMA scenarios for different traffic volumes and pavement layers thicknesses were developed. Finally, the sustainability of all the scenarios was evaluated for traffic designation in Saudi Arabia using fuzzy-based multicriteria analysis. Ranking of scenarios found CIR as a more sustainable overlay option for the feeders, collectors, main urban streets, expressways, and heavily trafficked highways in industrial areas where ESALs (Equivalent Single Axle Loads) range between 2,000,000 and >31,000,000. Considering the limited availability of advanced equipment and skilled labor for CIR pavements, HMA was found be a more sustainable option for farm-to-market roads with the “very light” traffic class. The methodology will help the pavement managers in decision making regarding the selection of sustainable pavement technologies for different road types in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.

scholarly journals Research and Analysis on the Principle in Plant Cold Recycling for Foamed Bitumen and Mixture Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zecheng Ni ◽  
Shijing Chen ◽  
Yihuan Li ◽  
Hongxi Peng ◽  
Jiawen Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asphalt Concrete ◽  
Asphalt Pavement ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Construction Waste ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Performance ◽  
Foamed Bitumen ◽  
Cold Recycling

The early asphalt pavement in our country severely reduced the road performance due to various external factors during the use process. According to incomplete statistics, there are more asphalt pavements that need to be renovated and repaired every year in China, and the amount of construction waste such as asphalt concrete and other construction waste reaches 1,000. About ten thousand tons. If such a huge amount of construction waste is not used, it will inevitably cause great pollution to the environment. If it can be reused, not only will it be environmentally friendly and energy-saving, it will also save more than one billion yuan in costs. In view of the above problems, this article conducts related Research and Analysis on the Principle in Plant Cold Recycling for Foamed Bitumen and Mixture Performance to provide reference for future projects.

Study of Longitudinal-Joint Construction Techniques in Hot-Mix Asphalt Pavements

1996 ◽  
Vol 1543 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prithvi S. Kandhal ◽  
Rajib B. Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Density Gradient ◽  
Hot Mix Asphalt ◽  
Conventional Technique ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Joint Construction ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Longitudinal Joint ◽  
The Face ◽  
Long Term Performance ◽  
Term Performance

There is a need to identify suitable longitudinal-joint construction techniques for multilane, hot-mix asphalt pavements that can minimize or eliminate cracking at the joint and raveling adjacent to the joint. It is believed that the longitudinal cracks result primarily from the density gradient that is usually encountered across the joint. This density gradient can be attributed to low density at the unconfined edge when the first lane is paved and relatively high density at the confined edge when the adjacent lane is paved. Seven different longitudinal-joint construction techniques were used on I-25 in Colorado in 1994, including various rolling procedures to compact the joint, provision of a vertical face with a cutting wheel, and use of rubberized asphalt tack coat on the face of the unconfined edge. Two longitudinal-joint construction techniques were used on I-79 in Pennsylvania in 1994: the conventional technique (control) and the New Jersey–type wedge joint. The latter technique uses a 3:1 taper at the unconfined edge of the first lane. The face of the taper is heated with an infrared heater before the adjacent lane is placed. Pavement cores were taken on the joint and 305 mm (1 ft) away from the joint for density measurements in all experimental test sections. Different techniques for joint construction have been ranked on the basis of statistical analysis of all density data. Various joints were also evaluated visually by teams of at least four engineers in June 1995. The performance, or ranking, of the joints in both Colorado and Pennsylvania projects after one winter seems to have been influenced by the overall density at the joint. The joints with high densities indicate better performance than those with relatively low densities. These rankings may change in the future on the basis of the long-term performance as measured by cracking and raveling.

Leaching of PAHs from Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1409-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Birgisdóttir ◽  
J. Gamst ◽  
T.H. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Hot Mix Asphalt ◽  
Asphalt Pavements

Top-Down Cracking Prediction Tool for Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements

2012 ◽  
pp. 465-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheolmin Baek ◽  
Senganal Thirunavukkarasu ◽  
B. Shane Underwood ◽  
Murthy N. Guddati ◽  
Y. Richard Kim
Keyword(s):  
Hot Mix Asphalt ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Prediction Tool ◽  
Top Down

scholarly journals Potential substitutions of traditional hydraulic binders in cold recycled mixtures using blast furnace slag

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Valentin ◽  
Pavla Vacková ◽  
Nadia Maria Jose Tarifa ◽  
Dimitra Giannaka
Keyword(s):  
Blast Furnace ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Water Immersion ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Common Solution ◽  
Pavement Engineering ◽  
Foamed Bitumen ◽  
Cold Recycling

Cold recycling techniques are known for decades in pavement engineering as a suitable rehabilitation method mainly for existing asphalt pavements. Traditionally the most common solution is to use bituminous emulsion or foamed bitumen as a binder usually in combination with small amount of cement or lime as active fillers. In some countries cement or hydraulic road binders are preferred instead of bitumen based options since it is believed that hydraulic binders can increase the bearing capacity of cold recycled layer especially for pavements with underestimated structures which were designed >40 years ago. Based on that the Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU Prague is for more than 10 years evaluating and developing further alternatives for the cement-based approach of cold recycled mixtures. In the past experience with fly-ashes or activated fly-ash based alternative binders were presented. Presently the focus is concentrating on the potentials of using blast furnace slags which are not generally usable for the cement industry (e.g. because of limited content of glassy compounds which are very typical mainly for granulated blast furnace slags). Air-cooled blast furnace slags were selected and activated by high-speed milling to get a material with latent hydraulic properties. This modified slag was applied in several options to cold recycled mixtures and standard strength and deformation tests were performed, including the determination of resistance to water immersion. Separately pastes based on used treated fine-grained slags were tested and evaluated. Data of the pastes are discussed jointly with the results for experimentally tested cold recycled mixtures.

scholarly journals Investigation on Hamburg Wheel-Tracking Device Stripping Performance Properties of Recycled Hot-Mix Asphalt Mixtures

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 4704
Author(s):  
Waqas Rafiq ◽  
Madzlan Bin Napiah ◽  
Muslich Hartadi Sutanto ◽  
Wesam Salah Alaloul ◽  
Zarisha Nadia Binti Zabri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hot Mix Asphalt ◽  
Asphalt Pavement ◽  
Asphalt Mixtures ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Recycled Asphalt ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Moisture Stability ◽  
Tracking Device ◽  
Wheel Tracking ◽  
Hamburg Wheel Tracking

Moisture damage in hot mix asphalt pavements is a periodic but persistent problem nowadays, even though laboratory testing is performed to identify different moisture-susceptible mixtures. In this study, a Hamburg Wheel Tracking device (HWTD) was used for rutting tests which were conducted on control and a high percentage of recycled asphalt pavement (RAP), i.e., 30%, 50% and 100% of virgin mixtures, under air dry and water-immersed conditions. Similarly, the extracted bitumen from RAP was tested for binder physical properties. Results showed that the asphalt mixtures containing RAP have less rut depth as compared to the control mix both in air dry and immersion conditions and hence showed better anti-rutting properties and moisture stability. Stripping performance of control and RAP containing mixtures was also checked, concluding that the RAP mixture was greatly dependent on the interaction between the binder (virgin plus aged) and aggregates.

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