Chemical and multi-scale material properties of recycled and blended asphalt binders

KL Roja, E Masad, B Vajipeyajula, W Yiming… - … and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Motivated with sustainability and economic factors, there is a rapid increase in the use of
recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) material in the construction of new asphalt pavements …

Combining adhesive contact mechanics with a viscoelastic material model to probe local material properties by AFM

C Ganser, C Czibula, D Tscharnuter, T Schöberl… - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Viscoelastic properties are often measured using probe based techniques such as
nanoindentation (NI) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Rarely, however, are these …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative nanomechanical property mapping of bitumen micro-phases by peak-force atomic force microscopy

SN Nahar, AJM Schmets, G Schitter… - 12th ISAP Conference …, 2014 - academia.edu
It is commonly assumed that the two-phase morphology of bituminous materials at the
micrometer length scale is the origin for the material's mechanical response at larger length …

Creep compliance mapping by atomic force microscopy

C Braunsmann, R Proksch, I Revenko, TE Schaeffer - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a method for mapping the spatial distribution of viscoelastic properties of
heterogeneous samples using the atomic force microscope (AFM). By applying a force step …

Research on viscoelastic-plastic damage characteristics of cement asphalt composite binder

Y Li, X He, H Sun, Y Tan - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to study the viscoelastic-plastic damage of cement asphalt composite binder
(simplified as CACB) and the relationship between plastic damage and viscoelastic …

Zero‐point correction method for nanoindentation tests to accurately quantify hardness and indentation size effect

J Marteau, PE Mazeran, S Bouvier, M Bigerelle - Strain, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An original treatment method is proposed to accurately determine by nanoindentation, the
macrohardness and the indentation size effect (ISE). This method is applied to stainless …

The viscoelastic behaviour of material phases in fired clay identified by means of grid nanoindentation

H Kariem, J Füssl, T Kiefer, A Jäger… - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
A systematic experimental identification approach for fired clay, the base material of bricks
and clay block masonry, is essential to optimize the mechanical and thermal properties and …

Characterization of asphalt materials for moisture damage using atomic force microscopy and nanoindentation

RA Tarefder, A Zaman - Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure: A Paradigm …, 2011 - Springer
Asphalt materials have traditionally been characterized for moisture damage at component
(microscale) and laboratory specimen (macro) scales. Though characterizations at such …

Nanoscale mechanical characterization of PMMA by AFM nanoindentation: A theoretical study on the time-dependent viscoelastic recovery

YH Ding, XH Deng, X Jiang, P Zhang, JR Yin… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - Springer
Temperature-dependent indent recovery of polymethyl methacrylate is depicted by atomic
force microscopy. The viscoelastic indent recovery is predicted by a numerical model based …

Physical Principles of Force–Distance Curves by Atomic Force Microscopy

B Cappella, B Cappella - 2016 - Springer
The atomic force microscope (AFM) is increasingly employed not only to acquire topography
images of samples but also to measure force–distance curves. Such curves, beyond playing …