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 …

The reuse of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in its highest quantity and quality is
currently a focus point of researchers in pavement engineering. The increased use of RAP …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As a vital and integral component of transportation infrastructure, pavement has a direct and
tangible impact on socio-economic sustainability. In recent years, an influx of …

With the increasing environmental awareness and rising costs of virgin binders, reclaimed
asphalt pavement (RAP) has been used as an alternative for energy and cost saving in …

To study the effect of isocyanates on the properties of polyurethane (PU) modified asphalt,
three kinds of polyurethane with different hard segments were synthesized, by the reaction …

The multiple recycling of bitumen offers the possibility of reusing it for repeated lifecycles
and achieve a higher degree of circularity of materials used in pavement construction …

Incorporating reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) increases concern about long-term fatigue
and cracking resistance of the resultant mixture due to the presence of an aged binder …