A state-of-the-art review of asphalt mixture fracture models to address pavement reflective cracking

Z Zeng, BS Underwood, YR Kim - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Reflective cracking, the phenomenon by which cracks propagate through the overlay from
existing damaged pavement, is a major cracking distress for asphalt pavements. Over time …

Determining fracture energy in asphalt mixture: A review

HR Radeef, NA Hassan, ARZ Abidin… - … series: earth and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most common pavement distresses is related to surface cracking. Therefore,
identifying and characterizing fracture properties of asphalt mixtures are significant towards …

Effect of temperature and air void on mixed mode fracture toughness of modified asphalt mixtures

MRM Aliha, H Fazaeli, S Aghajani, FM Nejad - Construction and Building …, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of modified asphalt mixtures is a suitable solution for preventing low temperature
cracking of pavements in cold regions. In this paper, mixed mode I/II fracture toughness of …

Environmental and mechanical performance of crumb rubber modified warm mix asphalt using Evotherm

X Yang, Z You, MRM Hasan, A Diab, H Shao… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
While crumb rubber (CR) can improve the performance of asphalt pavement in several
aspects, it has a noticeable concern of higher emission and increased energy consumption …

Improving moisture and fracture resistance of warm mix asphalt containing RAP and nanoclay additive

M Fakhri, AR Mottahed - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Using warm mix asphalt (WMA) and reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has both significant
environmental and financial benefits for countries; however, fracture resistance of RAP in …

Optimized machine learning approaches for the prediction of viscoelastic behavior of modified asphalt binders

AS Hosseini, P Hajikarimi, M Gandomi… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Additives are commonly used in pavement engineering to improve the original bitumen's
rheological and mechanical characteristics to meet severe loading and climatic condition …

Modes I and II stress intensity factors of semi-circular bend specimen computed for two-phase aggregate/mastic asphalt mixtures

MRM Aliha, H Ziari, B Mojaradi, MJ Sarbijan - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cracking behavior of asphalt mixtures in the shape of angled edge crack semi-circular
bend (SCB) specimens created by the generation and packing algorithm was investigated …

Use of reacted and activated rubber in ultra-thin hot mixture asphalt overlay for wet-freeze climates

S Chen, F Gong, D Ge, Z You, JB Sousa - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the use of crumb rubber in hot mixture asphalt pavement. The two
main objectives of this study were to enhance pavement performance in wet-freeze climates …

On predicting mode II fracture toughness (KIIc) of hot mix asphalt mixtures using the strain energy density criterion

MRM Aliha - Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
Mode II or in-plane sliding of crack faces is one of the possible fracture modes for asphalt
pavements which can often take place due to traffic loads passing over the crack at low …

Size effect analysis of mode I fracture performance of hot mix asphalt

W Song, H Wu, W Yan - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
The diameters of asphalt concrete cylindrical specimens typically measure either 100 mm or
150 mm, as these are the standard sizes for almost all conducted tests. However, the impact …