Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and
environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly …

The application of asphalt materials in pavement engineering has been increasingly
widespread and sophisticated over the past several decades. Variations in the properties of …

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 …

Porous asphalt (PA) is a distinct mixture type that deliberately designed with stone-on-stone
contact of the coarse aggregate fraction and high percentage of interconnected air voids to …

The demand for alternative bitumen which could fully/partially replace Petroleum sourced
bitumen for pavement construction is globally increasing. The increase in demand can be …

This study investigated the simulation of wheel tracking test and the high-temperature rutting
behaviour of an asphalt mixture by using the discrete element method (DEM). Based on the …

With the aging of roads and the lack of resources for maintenance, a thorough
understanding of the interaction between tires and asphalt pavements is crucial to optimize …

Asphalt mixture is a typical granular material, and its macroscopic properties are closely
related to the interaction behavior of aggregate particles at the micro scales. Discrete …

Studying creep behaviors of concrete materials at a mesoscale level is crucial to
understanding their mechanism. Discrete element method (DEM) could provide an effective …

The objective of this paper is to present a newly-developed approach for discrete element
simulation of realistic particle shapes in stone-based mixtures through a MATLAB-based …