scholarly journals TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DESIGN OF ASPHALT MIXTURE COMPOSITION BASED ON OPTIMIZATION METHODS

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrikas SIVILEVIČIUS ◽  
Kęstutis VISLAVIČIUS ◽  
Justas BRAŽIŪNAS

The asphalt pavement made of high quality materials and having the optimal composition best resists destructive effects of environmental factors and vehicles. The optimal content of the mineral materials of the asphalt mixture and a bituminous binder is selected employing calculation and experimental methods. The properties of the designed asphalt mixture must meet the requirements of technical specifications thus reducing its cost. The paper presents algorithms for simulating the composition of the asphalt mixture applying mathematical programming techniques. The algorithms allow designing the asphalt mixture with minimal bitumen content, a low cost of the mineral part and the densest gradation assessing technological requirements for producing the mixture. Optimal bitumen content is calculated considering bitumen capacities specified for different types of rock and determined employing the most recent standard sieves screening for narrow fractions. For verifying the new proposed algorithms, a numerical experiment on the materials most commonly used in asphalt mixing plants was done. The analysis of findings indicates that the application of the algorithms assist in comparing real results.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-157
Author(s):  
Hendra Arianto ◽  
Sofyan M. Saleh ◽  
Renni Anggraini

Reuse of reclaimed asphalt pavement material (RAP) is an alternative which applicated for potential enough on the roughness of the road. RAP material can be reused by adding the asphalt and the new aggregate according of the mixture composition so that it is expected will be obtained the quality as planned. One of the efforts made in improving the quality of asphalt mixture RAP material is using a modified asphalt with additional material, such as styrofoam. The use of styrofoam into the asphalt is expected to improve the technical properties of a mixture. The purpose of this research is to know the comparative characteristics of hot mix asphalt (asphalt concrete) type AC-WC that uses RAP material with additional asphalt pen. 60/70 and asphalt pen. 60/70 substitution in the styrofoam by 8%, 10% and 12% against the weight of asphalt based on levels of asphalt left on the material. The initial stages of this study is to conduct an examination of the physical properties of RAP material, then manufacturing a specimen with variations of the addition of asphalt and aggregate new levels based on the job mix diesign (JMD) Bina Marga Aceh (2013). Based on research results, parameter values marshall on all types of asphalt mixture with new aggregate as well as RAP materials and the use of 100% asphalt pen. 60/70 additional or different types of asphalt on OAC has fulfilled the technical specifications defined by the Bina Marga (2014). Best stability values obtained on asphalt mixture using RAP material with additional asphalt pen. 60/70 with 12% styrofoam substitution on OAC JMD Bina Marga Aceh, that amounted to 3,308.72 kg, the lowest value stability retrieved on asphalt mixture using a new aggregate based on the results of Department of Bina Marga Aceh on OAC i.e. of 983.94 kg.


2011 ◽  
Vol 97-98 ◽  
pp. 290-296
Author(s):  
Wei Guang Li ◽  
Zhi Dong Han ◽  
Zhen Bei Lv ◽  
Yan Hong Duan

It is important to reduce asphalt mixture strong absorption characteristics to improve anti-rutting ability and reduce the urban heat island effect. This paper firstly studies the suction and exothermic regular pattern of existing three types, five kinds of asphalt pavement structure. It turns out that there are differences in suction and exothermic characteristics of different types of pavement structure. Suspension close-grained type structure has higher adiabatic heating; gap-type skeleton has faster speed of suction and exothermic; and dense skeleton has more total quantity of heat storage. Accordingly, test and analysis of cooling effect of Gap-type skeleton asphalt pavement has conducted by adopting smear reflective materials to reduce reflectance and surface adding insulation materials, The results show that reducing reflectivity is the best way which can reduce by 5 centigrade around. In addition , improving effectiveness has also been studied by adding light-colored stone partly replacing mineral aggregate, and substituting busing mullite for aggregate below2.36 mm is the best cooling way ,which can reduce by 3.3 centigrade.


1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Zuzana Florkova ◽  
Jana Pastorkova ◽  
Matus Farbak ◽  
Zuzana Kolkova ◽  
Peter Hrabovsky

Asphalt pavement micro texture values primarily depend on aggregate properties used in asphalt pavement mixture and by aggregate surfaces is secured the basic contact medium with vehicle tires. It often happens that new asphalt surfaces have not required skid resistance properties and is needed a certain period of time to eliminate film of bitumen binder which is coating the aggregate grain on the surface of pavement by action of vehicles. In most cases, the investigation of the aggregate micro texture impact on the pavement skid resistance properties is carried out under laboratory conditions and generally relates only to measurements on natural aggregate samples (without bitumen). However, due to coating of aggregate by bitumen binder, valleys between the individual peaks of aggregate are filled. Obviously, it can be supposed that the usage of high amount of bitumen content can leads to decreasing of aggregate micro texture values. From this point of view, it can be expected that change in micro texture values depends on the content of binder in the asphalt mixture. Particular aggregate grains were taken from asphalt mixtures samples (AC 8, AC 11 and SMA 11) produced in the laboratory, in order to determine the impact of aggregate coating by bitumen binder on micro texture change. Each usage asphalt mixture was produced with three different bitumen binder contents. Digital image analysis method was used for subsequent evaluation. Changes in the micro texture values depending on the amount of used bitumen binder and also on the calculated theoretical bitumen film thickness are investigated in the conclusion.


2015 ◽  
Vol 752-753 ◽  
pp. 194-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Shaffie ◽  
J. Ahmad ◽  
D. Kamarun

Rutting is a common pavement failure in road pavement. Rutting occurs mainly due to several factors including increasing of vehicles numbers, environmental conditions and also due to construction and design errors. As a consequence the service life of asphalt pavement is affected and will be decreased. Various researches reported that using different types of polymers in bitumen modification could be a solution to delay deterioration of asphalt pavement. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of the NPA polymer modifier on the rutting behaviour of the asphalt mixtures through Superpave designed mixtures. . Two different types of dense graded Superpave HMA mix were developed consists of Control mix and nanopolyacrylate (NPA) mix. Results showed that all the mixes passed the Superpave volumetric properties criteria which indicate that these mixtures were good with respect to durability and flexibility. Furthermore there is a significant difference between Control mix and NPA mix in terms of rutting in which rut depth after 8000 passes for Control mix was 5.94 mm while for NPA mix was 2.98 mm. The results of this investigation indicated that the Rutting test result of NPA demonstrates 3% better resistance to rutting than those prepared using Control mix. This is due to the addition of NPA to the bitumen has certainly improved the bitumen properties significantly and hence increase the resistant to rutting of the asphalt mixture. Therefore, it can be concluded that NPA polymer is feasible to be used as asphalt modifier and has potential for improvement in the field of pavement material and construction in future.


2011 ◽  
Vol 199-200 ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ying Yang ◽  
Yi Qiu Tan ◽  
Hao Liu ◽  
Yu Ming Dong

Coal gangue is the waste of coal mining. It is discharged and stacked all around the mine and the dust pollution has become a public hazard. This paper commits an investigation on the asphalt mixture which takes advantage of coal gangue as coarse aggregate. The physical-mechanical performances of coal gangue aggregate are presented and the result indicates that coal gangue aggregate can meet the specifications except the content of the Flat and Elongate particles (F&E content). By controlling the rational content of F&E in the mixture, different types of asphalt mixes with different percentage of coal gangue coarse aggregate are tested and the overall performance of asphalt mixture is investigated. The result testifies that the asphalt mixture containing coal gangue has the equivalent performance with limestone mixture. It is observed that the coal gangue used as coarse aggregate can guarantee the properties of HMA. Thus the HMA can be used in asphalt pavement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 1855-1860
Author(s):  
Chuang Min Li ◽  
An Liu ◽  
Yun Chen

With the publication of Standard test methods of bitumen and bituminous mixtures for highway engineering " in 2011, the common asphalt mixture rutting test can be carried out in accordance with the T0719-2011 in China. But in our country, the current " Technical specifications for construction of highway engineering asphalt pavement " published in 2004 describes that the nominal maximum size of more than 19mm dense-graded asphalt concrete or asphalt treated permeable base is not suitable for carrying out specimens rutting test in accordance with the size of 300mm× 300mm ×50mm, so there is no corresponding dynamic stability requirements to the commonly used AC-25 type asphalt mixture in pavement layer in China. Combined with the Dao-He expressway pavement structure design and used the T0719-2011 method of AC-25 type different thickness rutting test, the relationship between the rutting specimen thickness and the dynamic stability is established. With reference to the requirements of asphalt pavement construction specifications and pavement structure layer on high temperature stability, the 8cm thick AC-25 common asphalt mixture dynamic stability criteria is put forward. Analyzing on AC-25 with No. 50 pure asphalt mixture dynamic stability test data, the dynamic stability requirements is put forward as validation for AC-25 asphalt mixture dynamic stability criteria in Dao-He expressway.


CONSTRUCTION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
S. M. Shahnewaz ◽  
Khairil Azman Masri ◽  
N. A. A. A. Ghani

Nowadays porous asphalt pavement increase usage other than the traditional type of asphalt pavement. In that sense porous asphalt specially use in the parking areas and walk ways for pedestrian. There are diverse ways that has been done in order to stick up to permanent degradation such as adding fibers and modifiers like polymers, chemical modifiers, expandars, oxidants and antioxidents, hydrocarbons and antistripping to enhance the fatigue and service life of the pavement. To use these type of additives in porous asphalt pavement some additive increase the mechanical performance of porous asphalt mixture and improve the serviceability of the pavement. Digital image processing use these type of pavement to reduce the air void of the asphalt mixture and increase the physical properties of the porous asphalt pavement. This review paper mainly discuss the overall performance and advantage of porous asphalt using different types of additives.


2014 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 1020-1024
Author(s):  
Jing Xu

The fiber is a reinforced material which has relatively light texture, high strength, is durable and wear-resistant, and widely used in the mixture of asphalt pavement. Adding different types of fibers in the construction, has a good effect in preventing cracks in the road, the performance of the road will also enhance. After the appropriate amount of fiber added to the asphalt mixture, fiber molecules will continuously and uniformly spread out, this time it will increase the anti-destructive of mixture, and will play an important role in protecting the road, preventing the road fracture. Related practices abroad show that adding fiber in asphalt mixture, every performance of the mixture will increase in different degrees. The diameter and density of different types of fibers will be different, of course, the reinforcing effect are not the same. This article describes application of a synthetic fibre in asphalt mixture, which is polyacrylonitrile fiber.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1613
Author(s):  
Alessandro Crosio ◽  
Giulia Ronchi ◽  
Benedetta Elena Fornasari ◽  
Simonetta Odella ◽  
Stefania Raimondo ◽  
...  

As a consequence of trauma or surgical interventions on peripheral nerves, scar tissue can form, interfering with the capacity of the nerve to regenerate properly. Scar tissue may also lead to traction neuropathies, with functional dysfunction and pain for the patient. The search for effective antiadhesion products to prevent scar tissue formation has, therefore, become an important clinical challenge. In this review, we perform extensive research on the PubMed database, retrieving experimental papers on the prevention of peripheral nerve scarring. Different parameters have been considered and discussed, including the animal and nerve models used and the experimental methods employed to simulate and evaluate scar formation. An overview of the different types of antiadhesion devices and strategies investigated in experimental models is also provided. To successfully evaluate the efficacy of new antiscarring agents, it is necessary to have reliable animal models mimicking the complications of peripheral nerve scarring and also standard and quantitative parameters to evaluate perineural scars. So far, there are no standardized methods used in experimental research, and it is, therefore, difficult to compare the results of the different antiadhesion devices.


Author(s):  
Feng Li ◽  
Gulnigar Ablat ◽  
Siqi Zhou ◽  
Yixin Liu ◽  
Yufeng Bi ◽  
...  

AbstractIn ice and snow weather, the surface texture characteristics of asphalt pavement change, which will significantly affect the skid resistance performance of asphalt pavement. In this study, five asphalt mixture types of AC-5, AC-13, AC-16, SMA-13, SMA-16 were prepared under three conditions of the original state, ice and snow. In this paper, a 2D-wavelet transform approach is proposed to characterize the micro and macro texture of pavement. The Normalized Energy (NE) is proposed to describe the pavement texture quantitatively. Compared with the mean texture depth (MTD), NE has the advantages of full coverage, full automation and wide analytical scale. The results show that snow increases the micro-scale texture because of its fluffiness, while the formation of the ice sheets on the surface reduces the micro-scale texture. The filling effect of snow and ice reduces the macro-scale texture of the pavement surface. In a follow-up study, the 2D-wavelet transform approach can be applied to improve the intelligent driving braking system, which can provide pavement texture information for the safe braking strategy of driverless vehicles.


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