Modified bitumen is a critical material to ensure the durability of asphalt pavements.
Traditional polymer-modified bitumen (PMB) has been widely researched and applied in the …

During the last decades, the number of vehicles per citizen as well as the traffic speed and
load has dramatically increased. This sudden and somehow unplanned overloading has …

This article reviews the state-of-the-art application of AFM in the field of bitumen materials.
The working principle of conventional AFM and its derivative technologies including AFM …

Bitumen, a product mostly used as a binder in road construction, has been subject of
numerous scientific investigations with the goal to optimise its function as an engineering …

The detrimental effects of hardening in asphalt pavements were first recognized by
pioneering pavement engineers in the 1900s and have been studied extensively during the …

Mineral filler, fine-grained mineral particles naturally present in or manufactured and added
to aggregates play a significant role on the performance of asphalt mastic and asphalt …

The objective of this study is to investigate the microevolution of the bitumen microstructure,
polymer phase, and polymer–bitumen interaction of high-viscosity modified bitumen (HVMB) …

A salt-eroded environment can have a significant negative impact on asphalt pavements,
especially in the salt-rich regions of east and west China. This research examines the …

Asphalt binder is a very important building material in infrastructure construction; it is
commonly mixed with mineral aggregate and used to produce asphalt concrete. Owing to …

In the past years a wide discussion has been held among asphalt researchers regarding the
existence and interpretation of observed microstructures on bitumen surfaces. To investigate …