Consideration of Heat Transfer Characteristics in Thermal Stress Calculations of Asphalt Mixtures in the TSRST
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 150, Issue 3
Abstract
The low-temperature performance of asphalt mixtures was a critical factor that investigated the thermal cracking of asphalt pavement in cold regions of the world. Many scholars have affirmed that the failure temperature of the thermal stress restrained specimen test (TSRST) could be an index to evaluate the low-temperature performance of asphalt mixtures. However, the influence of transient heat transfer on asphalt mixtures was ignored in the TSRST, potentially leading to inaccurate evaluation indexes for low-temperature performance. In this paper, the thermal contraction strain and the effective temperature of asphalt mixtures were analyzed considering transient heat transfer in the TSRST. First, the effective temperature and the thermal contraction strain were captured during the cooling process. Then, the calculation model of thermal stress was improved. The pseudo strain energy density was calculated based on the energy theory. Finally, the calculation model of thermal stress was evaluated with the failure temperature as the standard. The difference between the failure temperature calculated by the calculation model of thermal stress without considering the transient heat transfer and the failure temperature calculated considering the transient heat transfer was at least 2°C.
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All data and models used during the study appear in the published paper.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support from the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (No. E2022210029), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U22A20246), the Science and Technology Research Project of Universities of Hebei Province (No. KJZX202202), the central government guides local science and technology development fund projects (No. 226Z1904G), the S&T Program of Hebei (No. 225676162GH), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52172347 and 12372018).
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Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 150 • Issue 3 • September 2024
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Received: Jul 18, 2023
Accepted: Feb 16, 2024
Published online: May 20, 2024
Published in print: Sep 1, 2024
Discussion open until: Oct 20, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Asphalt pavements
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Heat transfer
- Infrastructure
- Materials characterization
- Materials engineering
- Measurement (by type)
- Mixtures
- Pavements
- Solid mechanics
- Stress (by type)
- Structural analysis
- Structural engineering
- Temperature effects
- Temperature measurement
- Thermal analysis
- Thermal loads
- Thermodynamics
- Transient response
- Transportation engineering
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