Stainless Steel Wires-Modified Asphalt Concrete for Self-Heating and Self-Deicing
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 36, Issue 9
Abstract
Stainless steel wires (SSWs)-modified asphalt concrete with stable long-term properties and high electrical conductivity as well as without puncturing vehicle tires is expected to become a promising multifunctional pavement material especially for solving road icing problems in cold climates. Hence, the electrical/thermal, self-heating, and self-deicing properties of SSWs-modified asphalt concrete were investigated in this study. Meanwhile, the measures for increasing the electro-thermal conversion efficiency of composites were explored. 0.75 vol% SSWs reduced the resistivity of asphalt concrete by at least eight orders of magnitude and increased the thermal conductivity by 30.38%. Preapplying a 60 V voltage instantaneously before applying voltage to utilize the breakdown effect on interface capacitors between SSWs, and employing the three-piece electrode arrangement for improving the overlapping probability of SSWs, significantly enhanced the self-heating power, peak/average temperature increase, and self-heating rate of SSWs-modified asphalt concrete by at least three times. The temperature on the top surface of SSWs-modified asphalt concrete slab (with size of ) under 60 V voltage increased by 24.1°C with a power density of for 90 min in a windless condition at . Meanwhile, the composites exhibited stable resistivity and good self-heating repeatability as well as temperature homogeneity during the self-heating process. The SSWs-modified asphalt concrete slab could melt a 4 mm ice layer within 2 h with an energy efficiency as high as 88.59% at the voltage of 60 V, and the cooling residual heat could theoretically melt a 2.4 mm ice layer to improve the self-deicing energy efficiency by 15.21%. Therefore, the low content SSWs-modified asphalt concrete exhibits promising application prospects in self-deicing pavement.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the funding supported from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52178188 and 51908103).
Author contributions: Sufen Dong: Resources, Methodology, Investigation, Writing–original draft, Writing–revision, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition; Wenhui Zhang: Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing–original draft, Writing- revision; Zhide Huang: Formal analysis, Writing–revision; Baoguo Han: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing–revision, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 36 • Issue 9 • September 2024
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Received: Dec 6, 2023
Accepted: Feb 9, 2024
Published online: Jun 18, 2024
Published in print: Sep 1, 2024
Discussion open until: Nov 18, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Asphalt concrete
- Asphalt pavements
- Composite materials
- Concrete pavements
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Fiber reinforced composites
- Infrastructure
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Measurement (by type)
- Metals (material)
- Pavements
- Stainless steel
- Steel
- Temperature effects
- Temperature measurement
- Transportation engineering
- Vehicle-pavement interaction
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