New Index Used to Evaluate the High-Temperature and Low-Temperature Performance of Asphalt
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 27, Issue 8
Abstract
To evaluate the properties of asphalt accurately, a new index, dynamic viscoelastic index (), is proposed on the basis of rheological mechanics. To verify this new index, six kinds of asphalt are evaluated with , and six kinds of asphalt mixtures are tested at high and low temperature with asphalt pavement analyzer and indirect tensile test, respectively. It is found and temperature shows a good relationship and can be fitted with quadratic function. Also, the slope of the curve changed at around 50°C, and the curve can be fitted with linear model respectively. It is recommended that be used as the index of high-temperature and low-temperature performance of asphalt since there is a good relationship between and performance of asphalt mixture.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the financial support by National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (51225803), and many thanks should be given to Professor Zhang Xiao-ning for his great help.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 27 • Issue 8 • August 2015
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© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 23, 2013
Accepted: Sep 23, 2014
Published online: Nov 3, 2014
Discussion open until: Apr 3, 2015
Published in print: Aug 1, 2015
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