Using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in asphalt mixes has become a common practice in many countries as experience indicated that the recycling of asphalt pavements is very advantageous from different perspectives. Some of the advantages of utilizing RAP include conservation of asphalt and aggregate resources, conservation of energy, and reduction in life-cycle cost. In this study, the suitab...

Language: English The Challenge At the outset the asphalt paving process seems to be simple. Trucks deliver hot mix asphalt from plants to the construction site. There the asphalt is loaded on asphalt pavers that evenly spread the asphalt. Finally, compactors compact the asphalt to its required density. Despite this relatively structured process our research shows that there are significant dis...

The usage of polymer-modified asphalt binders has increased as a result the significant increase in number conventional cars operating on Iraqi roads recent years. This resulted strains being placed pavement structures and materials. Global exploration focused development stabilizing Stone Mastic Asphalt mixtures for improved behavior. Numerous effective efforts were made to stabilize stone mas...

BACKGROUND Asphalt workers are exposed to bitumen fume and vapour, and to exhaust from engines and passing traffic. AIMS To assess the occurrence of respiratory symptoms and signs of airflow limitations in a group of asphalt workers. METHODS All 64 asphalt workers and a reference group of 195 outdoor construction workers from the same company participated in a cross-sectional study. Spirome...

We report on dry asphalt roads acting as 'mayfly traps'; that is, they lure swarming, mating and egg-laying mayflies in large numbers. To explain this surprising behaviour, we performed multiple-choice experiments with Ephemeroptera in the field, and measured and compared the reflection-polarization characteristics of an asphalt road and a mountain creek from which mayflies emerge. We show here...

Nowadays, the most common ways to dispose of acid tars and paper production waste are burial or incineration, but it is ecologically economically expedient use such in building materials. A new variant filler aggregate—wastepaper sludge ash (paper waste) a chemical activator for aggregates—acid tar (oil-refining industry proposed. Elemental mineralogical compositions wastepaper comparison with ...

The National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) completed a roundrobin study in March to determine the accuracy and precision of the NCAT asphalt content tester. The Center has conducted research since 1990 to develop this test method for determining asphalt content of hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures by ignition (See the fall, 1994, issue of Asphalt Technology News). In the ignition method, a ...

Stone mastic asphalt (SMA) has become widely used in the field of pavement engineering. Using specific additives SMA is necessary due to climate change and load condition variations. Thus, it essential utilise a modern mixture with high capacity survive traffic loads. The current study aims use combination waste polyethene terephthalate (PET) Nano-silica (NS) as newly developed hybrid additive ...