Application of Limestone Manufactured Sand as Fine Aggregate in Asphalt Concrete

2012 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Shao Peng Wu ◽  
Pei Qiang Cui ◽  
Deng Feng Zhang

The property of aggregate has a significant effect on the performance of asphalt mixture because of its high proportion. Asphalt mixture prepared by some kind of aggregate cause the inadequate compaction problem, which results in moisture damage due to its large air void. Limestone manufactured sand is considered as one of the useful solution to overcome the compaction problem. In this paper, fine aggregate is substituted by different proportion of limestone manufactured sand (LMS). The effect of replacement ratio on volume properties and pavement performance is studied. The results show that the limestone manufactured sand can improve the pavement performance and is benefit to the compaction of andesite asphalt mixture. Furthermore, this research also provided some valuable parameters for guiding the pavement construction in the future.

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 2501-2504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pan Pan ◽  
Chang Jun Sun ◽  
Ning Tang ◽  
Ming Yu Chen ◽  
Shao Peng Wu

Conductive asphalt concrete, a kind of intelligent materials, can serve as asphalt solar collector, asphalt heater and self monitor. And moisture damage is one of the most common performance degradation of asphalt concrete. This paper investigates the volume properties of conductive asphalt concrete based on Freeze-thaw cycles. Marshall specimen was frozen and thawed repeatedly and a cycle consists 16h at -18oC and 8h at 60oC. The change of air void and weight loss ratio were chosen to evaluate the moisture resistance of conductive asphalt concrete. Three types of asphalt mixture (control, CAC 1 and CAC 2) were used to study the effect of initial void and material composition on moisture resistance. The results show that both the framework structures and the material composition have a great effect on antifreeze-thaw property of asphalt concrete, which provides an efficient guidance for application of this technology in pavement.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4126
Author(s):  
Guangji Xu ◽  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Xiaoming Huang ◽  
Tao Ma ◽  
Wei Zhou

The air voids distribution has a significant effect on the pavement performance related distresses such as rutting, cracking, moisture damage and permeability. However, most studies only quantified the air voids by average content, ignoring the heterogeneity inside the materials. This study focuses on the heterogeneity of air voids distribution inside the open-grade asphalt mixture based on 2D image analysis. Equivalent aperture is proposed to measure the area of each air void. Results showed that along both vertical and horizontal sections inside the open-grade asphalt mixture, the number of voids with 0~2 mm equivalent aperture would have a great impact on the total number of voids, while large amounts of small voids would not significantly affect the total voids number. Additionally, voids with 0~4 mm equivalent aperture account for the largest proportion, and when the equivalent aperture is beyond 4 mm, the number of voids would decrease as the equivalent aperture increases, regardless of the void areas. Furthermore, in both vertical and horizontal sections, as the equivalent aperture increases, the speed to accumulate voids area would firstly increase and then decrease. As the equivalent aperture increases, the contribution to the total voids area would increase accordingly, and it would approach the peak when the equivalent aperture reaches about 8 mm.


2012 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
pp. 655-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu Hong Hao ◽  
Ai Qin Zhang ◽  
Zhi Guo Liu

The performance of asphalt concrete mixed with 3 types of fine aggregate respectively (i.e. natural sand, limestone, basalt) are compared. The results of Marshall test and rutting test show that the high temperature performance of asphalt mixture mixed with basalt is the best, that of asphalt mixture mixed with natural sand is the worst, and that of asphalt mixture mixed with limestone is between the above two. The result of immersion Marshall test show that the water stability of asphalt mixture mixed with basalt and that of asphalt mixture mixed with limestone are similar, but better than that of asphalt mixture mixed with natural sand. Therefore, it indicates that the machine-made aggregate (of basalt or limestone) have better pavement performance and environment benefit than the natural sand.


2012 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 162-167
Author(s):  
Ning Tang ◽  
Shao Peng Wu ◽  
Chang Jun Sun

Aggregate distribution of asphalt mixture had an obvious characteristic of fractal. Based on fractal theory, the distribution function of aggregate of conductive asphalt mixture based on the granular fractal model was deduced. This paper used linear regression analysis to different gradings to get the grading fractal dimension of conductive asphalt mixture and the conductivity of the mixture was tested. Test results indicated that the grading fractal dimension of conductive asphalt mixture was controled by the fine aggregate. On the other hand, the fractal dimension had a congruent relationship with conductivity. The conductive asphalt mixture had good pavement performance and conductive when the fractal dimension of AC-20 grading ranged from 2.43 to 2.53. The fractal dimension can be used as a quantification index of grading evaluation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabiru Abdullahi Ahmad ◽  
Norhidayah Abdul Hassan ◽  
Mohd Ezree Abdullah ◽  
Munder A.M. Bilema ◽  
Nura Usman ◽  
...  

Purpose In order to fully understand the properties of porous asphalt, investigation should be conducted from different point of views. This is from the fact that porous asphalt mixture designed with the same aggregate gradation and air void content can give different infiltration rate due to the different formation of the internal structure. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the micro-structural properties and functional performance of porous asphalt simultaneously. Design/methodology/approach The aim is to develop imaging techniques to process and analyze the internal structure of porous asphalt mixture. A few parameters were established to analyze the air void properties and aggregate interlock within the gyratory compacted samples captured using a non-destructive scanning technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT) throughout the samples. The results were then compared with the functional performance in terms of permeability. Four aggregate gradations used in different countries, i.e. Malaysia, Australia, the USA and Singapore. The samples were tested for resilient modulus and permeability. Quantitative analysis of the microstructure was used to establish the relationships between the air void properties and aggregate interlock and the resilient modulus and permeability. Findings Based on the results, it was found that the micro-structural properties investigated have successfully described the internal structure formation and they reflect the results of resilient modulus and permeability. In addition, the imaging technique which includes the image processing and image analysis for internal structure quantification seems to be very useful and perform well with the X-ray CT images based on the reliable results obtained from the analysis. Research limitations/implications In this study, attention was limited to the study of internal structure of porous asphalt samples prepared in the laboratory using X-ray CT but can also be used to assess the quality of finished asphalt pavements by taking core samples for quantitative and qualitative analysis. The use of CT for material characterization presents a lot of possibilities in the future of asphalt concrete mix design. Originality/value Based on the validation process which includes comparisons between the values obtained from the image analysis and those from the performance test and it was found that the developed procedure satisfactorily assesses the air voids distribution and the aggregate interlock for this reason, it can be used.


UKaRsT ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Sugeng Dwi Hartantyo ◽  
Rasiyo Hepiyanto

Laston is a mixture of coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, and filler with a binder under the temperature of 145-155oC with the composition being studied and regulated by technical specifications. Laston is also known as AC (Asphalt Concrete).Laston itself is commonly used in Indonesia with continuous gradations used for heavy traffic loads. To get the addictive material is not easy and the material is expensive. Therefore, it is necessary to find alternatives to the cellulose fiber. Water hyacinth is a water weed that once grow and develop, it has high cellulose fiber content, which is about 60%.For that, done a research to add a hot asphalt mixture material that aims to improve the quality of mixed result. The selected material is natural water hyacinth. The method used is trial and error with reference of SNI 03-1737-1989. Variations used are 3%, 5%, and 7% of the asphalt weight, asphalt level used Is 5.61%.The result of this study is Marshall evaluation where the greatest score obtained for stability is 1325 kg,  Flow is 3.73 mm, Quotient Marshall is 401.02 kg/mm, VMA is 66.30%, VFWA is 19.25%, and VIM score is 54.35 %. With this result, the asphalt mixture can not be used because the results of VMA, VFWA, and VIM have not been suitable on specification of SNI 03-1737-1989.  Keywords: Laston, Asphalt Concrete, Water Hyacinth, SNI 03-1737-1989.


2021 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Dang Tung Dang ◽  
Manh Tuan Nguyen ◽  
Ngoc Tram Hoang ◽  
Anh Thang Le

Currently, application of industrial waste or by-product in road construction industrials is a major interest by researchers, government officers and engineers. Coal ashes by-product from industrial parks negatively impact environment, costly in treatment, and require large ground for disposing areas. Therefore, this paper proposes on using the coal ash from furnace products of an industrial park in South of Vietnam to be incorporated into dense graded asphalt concrete using Nominal Maximum Aggregate Size 12.5mm. Laboratory performance tests including Marshall stability, indirect tensile strength, Cantabro loss, and dynamic fatigue test were conducted. The effects of coal ash contents in replacement of fine aggregate which is passing 4.75mm sieve from asphalt mixture into laboratory performance of mixture is also discussed in detail.


2013 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Garcia ◽  
Jose Norambuena-Contreras ◽  
Manfred N. Partl

Induction heating consists in adding electrically conductive fibers to the asphalt mixture and heating them with an induction heating device. But still, the factors that affect the increase of temperature are not well-known. With this purpose, 25 different mixtures, with the same aggregates distribution and amount of bitumen, but with 2 different lengths, 4 different quantities, and 4 different diameters of steel wool fibers have been considered. The influence of fibers on the air void content, electrical and thermal conductivity and on the induction heating of dense asphalt concrete has been studied. It was found that steel wool fibers increase slightly the electrical and thermal conductivities of dense asphalt concrete. Finally, it has been observed that the temperature reached due to the induction heating, increases with the number of fibers in the mixture and with their diameter.


2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 1145-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Qiu ◽  
Lan Yun Chen ◽  
Liang Xue

The paper investigates the effects of different concentrations of crumb rubber (CR) on the pavement performance of the conventional penetration-grade 80/100 bitumen and the dense-graded wearing course asphalt mixture (AC16). A wet process and 0.6mm size CR were used and the control variables included three types of CR of concentrations 5%,10% and 15% by total weight of binder. The evaluations were twofold. Firstly, a comparison of the basic and rheological properties of those modified and unmodified binders was conducted. Secondly, a comparison of the resistance to moisture damage, low temperature cracking and permanent deformation of the AC16 and CR modified AC16 was performed. The results show that all the CR modified binders and mixtures are found to have improved performance as evaluated by a series of laboratory tests. In addition, among three CR concentrations, AC16 modified with 10%CR by total weight of binder exhibits the most satisfactory performance properties with respect to the resistance to moisture damage, permanent deformation and low temperature cracking.


2012 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 22-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhao Chen ◽  
Zhen Xia Li

In order to discuss the effectiveness of basalt fiber in reinforcing pavement performance of asphalt mixtures, the pavement performances of basalt fiber asphalt mixtures were investigated by tests of high temperature stability, water stability and low temperature crack resistance, and compared with the pavement performance of asphalt mixtures with polyester fiber and xylogen fiber, and that of reference mixture. The results show that pavement performance of fiber asphalt mixture are improved and optimized comparing with reference asphalt mixture, the performance of asphalt mixture with basalt fiber are excelled than those with polyester fiber and xylogen fiber while the dosage of fibers is keeping at the optimum.


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