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 …

Fatigue cracking is a common form of pavement failure and is strongly tied to the properties
of the asphalt binder used in the mix. The Superpave grading procedure is currently used in …

Muscle-driven simulations of human and animal motion are widely used to complement
physical experiments for studying movement dynamics. Musculotendon models are an …

Abstract In this research, Linear Amplitude Sweep (LAS) test was conducted on several
asphalt binders modified by different percentages of gilsonite and Styrene-Butadiene …

The fatigue cracking due to the repeated traffic loading is one of the main distresses that
reduces the performance and service life of the asphalt pavements. The asphalt phase of …

The main contribution of this study is the introduction of a method to quantify fatigue damage
accumulation of asphalt binders using a short-duration test procedure that can be easily …

In current practice of mixture design, volumetric properties such as voids and binder content
along with mechanical properties such as modulus or rutting resistance are used as the …

Abstract Fatigue lives of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) and binder have been studied separately for
a long time. However, fatigue lives of HMA containing Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) …

Characterization of the asphalt concrete microstructure using two-dimensional (2-D) imaging
techniques is an economically efficient approach. However, the features that have been …

Asphalt has been used as a construction material from the earliest days of civilization, but
though it has long been used as a waterproofing material in shipbuilding and hydraulics, its …