Performance grading of extracted and recovered asphalt cements

Autor: Michael Somuah, Pamela Marks, Simon A.M. Hesp, Haibo Ding, Justice Gyasi, Yihua Nie, Imad Ubaid, Nathaniel Tetteh, Seyed Tabib
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Zdroj: Construction and Building Materials. 187:996-1003
ISSN: 0950-0618
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.07.243
Popis: Binder extracted and recovered from pavement core samples at two different locations from 18 contracts showed small differences within contracts, well within the minor borderline acceptance criteria. Serious discrepancies were found between original tank sampled asphalt binder and material recovered from pavement cores. Regular BBR grades for recovered materials were on average 2.7 °C in deficit, which is considered high for 3–5 years of service. EBBR grades were on average 7.6 °C in deficit (range 3 °C to 17.3 °C). Equilibrium grades, after 72 h of conditioning, correlated well with temperatures where the phase angle reached 30° after minimal conditioning, suggesting that a limit on phase angle may provide a practical quality assurance measure.
Databáze: OpenAIRE