Performance of warm mix asphalt containing Sasobit®: State-of-the-art

A Jamshidi, MO Hamzah, Z You - Construction and Building Materials, 2013 - Elsevier
Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technology has become increasingly popular in pavement
construction because of its environmental benefits and its ability to improve the engineering …

Wax in Asphalt: A comprehensive literature review

J Kovinich, A Kuhn, A Wong, H Ding… - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wax in asphalt is an important factor that affects the life cycle cost of flexible pavements. Due
to limitations in characterization methods for asphalt microstructure, deficiencies in our …

Thermal-oxidative aging mechanism of asphalt binder based on isothermal thermal analysis at the SARA level

Z Hu, H Zhang, S Wang, T Xu - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
To better understand the thermal-oxidative aging mechanism of asphalt binder at the
component level, a new isothermal aging method was developed to discuss thermal …

Creep-recovery behavior of bituminous binders and its relation to asphalt mixture rutting

OV Laukkanen, H Soenen, T Pellinen, S Heyrman… - Materials and …, 2015 - Springer
Rutting is one of the main distress modes of asphalt pavements, especially after prolonged
warm periods, and thus a great deal of research has been focused on the development of a …

Quantification of crystalline wax in asphalt binders using variable-temperature Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

H Ding, SAM Hesp - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid crystalline wax content is an important parameter to control the quality and durability of
asphalt binders produced for flexible pavement construction. Although a significant number …

Rheological evolution mechanisms of asphalt binder and mastic under freeze-thaw cycles

Y Cheng, H Wang, W Wang, J Liang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Perennial freeze-thaw cycles have caused plenty of defects on asphalt pavements. To
analyze the effect on asphalt binder and mastic under freeze-thaw cycles, the multiple stress …

Morphology, thermal analysis and rheology of Sasobit modified warm mix asphalt binders

Q Qin, MJ Farrar, AT Pauli, JJ Adams - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
The microstructure–property relationship of Sasobit modified Warm Mix Asphalts (WMA) is
investigated in terms of thermal, rheological and morphological studies. Four asphalt …

Airborne emissions of asphalt/wax blends for warm mix asphalt production

F Autelitano, F Bianchi, F Giuliani - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
During the asphalt heating process in the various stages of hot mix asphalt (HMA)
production and paving operations a complex mixture of hydrocarbon aerosols, vapors and …

High and low temperature properties of crumb rubber modified binders containing warm mix asphalt additives

AM Rodríguez-Alloza, J Gallego, I Pérez… - … and Building Materials, 2014 - Elsevier
In recent years, warm mix asphalt (WMA) has become an important new research topic in
the field of pavement materials due to a growing concern over global warming. Though this …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-scale analysis of asphalt binder tensile fracture using molecular dynamics simulation

B Cui, H Wang - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The tensile failure behavior of asphalt binder is crucial for longevity and durability of asphalt
concrete, which is one of most common infrastructure materials. This study provides a cross …