© Appl. Rheol. 20 (2010) 63293 DOI: 10.3933/ApplRheol-20-63293 Abstract: Bitumen is undoubtedly the most important material in the construction and rehabilitation of flexible road pavements. By increasing the temperature, bitumen changes from brittle solid, to viscoelastic solid and finally to Newtonian fluid. The rheological characteristics of bitumen also vary greatly due to aging, which is a...

a r t i c l e i n f o Cold recycling technique represents the most environmental friendly solution for pavement rehabilitation nowadays. In fact, this technique allows the use of the highest percentage of reclaimed asphalt avoiding the energy consumption related to aggregates heating required by the traditional hot mix asphalt design. The mix design represents a key phase of the cold mix produc...

The Fremont Bridge is steel tied arch bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. It carries traffic on Interstate 405 and US Highway 30 between downtown and north Portland. . The bridge was constructed in 1973, and the paving on the original steel deck consisted of epoxy asphalt concrete followed by an asphalt concrete overlay. The pavement performed for nearly 40 years before it nee...

polymer application for the improvement and modification of the bitumen used in roads surfaces has expanded in recent decades. the roads engineers and constructors, therefore, have used the modified bitumen in asphalts helping in this way to increase roads and pavements service life and improving the durability of the roads and asphalts. the bitumen used in asphalt mixture constitutes only a lo...

this paper identifies eleven types of asphalt pavement distress types, commonly occuring in tehran metropolitan area. of these, five distresses namely: corrugation; utility cut depression ;pot holes; alligator cracking; and loss of bridge deck surfacing are rather common. however, others namely: shear failure; shrinkage cracks; lane joint cracks; bleeding; and shoulder distress are less prevail...

The high contribution of CO 2 emissions associated with pavements has driven research to assess the life cycle of concrete versus asphalt structures and to develop a strategy to reduce the carbon footprint. The life cycle of pavement has been studied with respect to CO 2 emissions in the use phase of concrete as well as after the concrete is demolished. However, only a few have considered the e...

Rubblization is considered one of the sustainable surface preparation techniques before placing a hot mix asphalt (HMA) overlay that involves breaking the concrete pavement into pieces. The design of the structural overlay thickness for rubblized projects is difficult as the resulting structure is neither a true rigid pavement nor a true flexible pavement. The most important aspect of the desig...

This paper describes the Accelerated Testing with the LINTRACK-facility of the innovative ‘Rollpave’ test pavement that was developed within the theme ‘Modular Pavement Structures’ of the project ‘Roads for the Future’ of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. The concept of ‘Rollpave’ is a thin pre-manufactured asphalt wearing course that is rolled on a reel. On si...

Dynamic modulus characterizes the viscoelastic behavior of asphalt materials and is the most important input parameter for design and rehabilitation of flexible pavements using Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). Laboratory determination of dynamic modulus is very expensive and time consuming. To overcome this challenge, several predictive models were developed to determine dyn...