Journal
CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages 1-13Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.12.017
Keywords
Asphaltic plug joints (APJs); Fluorescence microscopy; Rheological behaviour; Finite element modelling
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Funding
- Projects on the Integration of Industry, Education and Research of Guangdong Province
- Ministry of Education [2012B091000162]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51408447]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2014-IV-093]
- Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China [20110143120013]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
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The service performance of asphaltic plug joints (APJs) is unsatisfactory. Premature cracking, rutting and debonding of APJ filling mixture is strongly related to the relevant properties of the used asphalt sealants. Better understanding on the sealant properties and their relation to the mixture performance is thus needed. In this paper, asphalt sealants were highly modified with a large amount of styrene-buta diene-styrene block copolymers (SBS), crumb rubber (CR), polypropylene (PP) and a combination of the above modifiers. Fluorescence microscopy analysis confirmed the formation of continuous polymer-rich phase, the swelling of crumb particle and the compatibility between the modifier and bitumen. Fundamental research into rheological behaviours was carried out by using viscosity test, dynamic modulus test, creep test and relaxation test. The significant plateau region of rheological master curves and black diagrams demonstrated an extraordinary effect of modification. Asphalt sealant's properties were found to well relate to APJ mixture performance. Finite element (FE) modelling at meso scale provided a favourable result and allowed bridging the gap between sealant properties and mixture performance. The provided test results could be used as a database for the selection and optimization of asphalt sealant. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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