Fracture Tests on Bitumen Films
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 17, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper investigates the adhesive properties of bitumen films. Tensile tests on bitumen butt joints and double cantilever beam specimens, over a wide range of test conditions, are described. The test results are treated using fracture mechanics and strength of materials approaches. It is found that the failure strain of bitumen is generally independent of equivalent strain rate, in both the brittle and ductile regimes, whereas the “normalized toughness,” is rate independent in the brittle regime and rate dependent in the ductile regime ( energy release rate, thickness). The toughness of a typical paving bitumen is quantified, both for brittle fracture and ductile failure, and a mechanism map classifying the failure mechanisms as a function of temperature and strain rate is presented.
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Acknowledgments
This work was financed by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The writers wish to thank Professors M. F. Ashby and N. A. Fleck, and Drs. V. S. Deshpande and G. M. Genin for many useful suggestions, and Mr. A. Heaver for assistance with photography of the fracture surfaces.
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Received: Jul 29, 2003
Accepted: Dec 2, 2003
Published online: Feb 1, 2005
Published in print: Feb 2005
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Note. Associate Editor: Shin-Che Huang
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