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Huurman, M. (author), Medani, TO (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Kasbergen, C. (author)The life span of surfacings for orthotropic steel deck bridges is often limited.<br/>There is no universally accepted method for the design of surfacings. However,<br/>some theories to estimate the stresses/strains in the different layers are available.<br/>These theories are almost all based on one or both of the following assumptions:<br/>1....conference paper 2003
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Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Li, J. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author)In order to characterize adequately the adhesive bonding strength of the various membranes with surrounding materials on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, details of the Membrane Adhesion Test (MAT) have been introduced. Analytical constitutive relations of MAT device have been derived on the basis of...conference paper 2012
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Li, J. (author), Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author)In the Netherlands an asphaltic surfacing structure for orthotropic steel bridge decks mostly consists of two structural layers. The upper layer consists of Porous Asphalt (PA) because of reasons related to noise hindrance. For the lower layer a choice between Mastic Asphalt (MA) or Guss Asphalt (GA), can be made. In this paper, a typical Dutch...conference paper 2012
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Tzimiris, G. (author), Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Li, J. (author), Hofman, R. (author), Voskuilen, J. (author)Due to lightweight and flexibility, orthotropic steel deck bridges become popular the last decades but several problems were reported in relation to asphalt surfacing materials such as rutting, cracking, loss of bond between the surfacing system and steel deck. In the Netherlands a surfacing structure for orthotropic steel bridge decks mostly...conference paper 2013
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Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Li, J. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author), Hofman, R. (author), Voskuilen, J. (author)In order to adequately characterize the adhesive bonding strength of the various membranes with surrounding materials on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, details of the Membrane Adhesion Test (MAT) are introduced. Analytical constitutive relations of the MAT device have been derived using the same...conference paper 2013
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Nahar, S.N. (author), Dillingh, B. (author), Erkens, S.M.J.G. (author), Schmets, A.J.M. (author), Fischer, H.R. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Schitter, G. (author)Bituminous binders are known to have microstructures at typical length scales of micrometers. This microstructure can be probed with Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Now that worldwide several research groups are reporting AFM results on bitumen, it is becoming important to improve the understanding of the reproducibility and objectivity of the...conference paper 2013
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Li, J. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Hofman, R. (author), Voskuilen, J. (author)The French five-point bending test (5PBT) provides a laboratory scale test that allows studying the fatigue resistance of surfacing systems on orthotropic steel deck bridges (OSDB). The surfacing structure for OSDB in the Netherlands consists mostly of multilayer system: top porous asphalt layer, guss asphalt layer, steel deck and two membrane...conference paper 2013
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Li, J. (author), Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author)Light weight orthotropic steel bridge decks have been widely utilized for bridges in seismic zones, movable bridges and long span bridges. In the last three decades, severe problems were reported in relation to asphaltic surfacing materials on orthotropic steel deck bridges. Earlier investigations have shown that the bonding strength of membrane...conference paper 2013
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Nahar, S.N. (author), Schmets, A.J.M. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Schitter, G. (author)Bitumen is the binder in the composite material named asphalt concrete. Under cyclic mechanical loading of traffic passing over the pavement, eventually damage will initiate in the pavement, leading to eventual structural failure. This damaging process is accelerated by time dependent change of the mechanical properties of asphalt concrete due...conference paper 2013
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Pauli, A. (author), Schmets, A.J.M. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Varveri, K. (author), Scarpas, A. (author)Bituminous materials form a class of materials that possess the intrinsic ability to selfheal. This self-healing capability is evidenced by the observation that the service life of these materials ‘in the field’ exceeds the service life as predicted by standard mechanical laboratory tests. This mismatch between laboratory prediction and field...conference paper 2013
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Erkens, S. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Villani, M.M. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Florio, E. (author), Berti, C. (author)Sinds 2008 werken we in Nederland met functionele eigenschappen voor asfalt<br/>beton. Hierbij wordt niet zo zeer op het “recept” van het asfalt gestuurd, als<br/>wel op de eigenschappen ervan die van belang zijn voor het gedrag in de weg.<br/>Binnen het NL-LAB programma wordt de relatie tussen deze functionele<br/>eigenschappen en het gedrag in...conference paper 2014
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Florio, E. (author), Berti, C. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Villani, M.M. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author), Sangiorgi, Cesare (author), Lantieri, Claudio (author)In the Netherlands, the functional approach described in the 2008 European Asphalt Concrete standards was selected, specifying mixtures by their stiffness, fatigue resistance, permanent deformation, moisture sensitivity and limited composition data. The requirements for the functional specifications were based on the existing experience with a...conference paper 2014
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Liu, X. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author), Scarpas, T. (author), Hofman, R. (author), Voskuilen, J. (author)In order to adequately characterize the fatigue response of the various membranes with surrounding multilayer surfacing layers on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, the details of the cyclic Membrane Adhesion Tester (MAT) are introduced. The fatigue damage in membrane interface is related to the amount...conference paper 2014
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On the combined effect of moisture diffusion and cyclic pore pressure generation in asphalt concreteVarveri, A. (author), Scarpas, A. (author), Collop, A. (author), Erkens, S.M.J.G. (author)In this paper, a new moisture conditioning protocol which attempts to distinguish the contributions of long- and short-term moisture damage, i.e. moisture diffusion and cyclic pore pressure generation, in asphalt mixtures is presented. The capability of the proposed protocol to rank various asphalt mixtures of known field performance for their...conference paper 2014
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Florio, E. (author), Berti, C. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Villani, M.M. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author), Sangiorgi, Cesare (author), Lantieri, Claudio (author)This paper describes a project that is part of NL-LAB, a larger, long-term program at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, which aims to establish the predictive capacity of the current European functional tests for Dutch asphalt concrete (AC) mixtures. In this NL-LAB program, the functional characteristics of resistance to rutting (EN...conference paper 2014
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Nahar, S.N. (author), Schmets, A.J.M. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Shirazi, M. (author), van de Ven, M.F.C. (author), Schitter, G. (author), Scarpas, A. (author)Countermeasures to the ageing of bituminous asphalt binders is a highly important topic, both for service-life extension of asphalt ‘in the field’ and for recycling old pavements (RAP) into new structures with similar functional requirements as the original structure. Usually this is achieved by applying additives that restore the adhesive and...conference paper 2014
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Liu, X. (author), Tzimiris, G. (author), Li, J. (author), Scarpas, T. (author), Hofman, R. (author), Voskuilen, J. (author)In order to adequately characterize the fatigue response of the various membranes with surrounding multilayer surfacing layers on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, the details of the cyclic Membrane Adhesion Tester (MAT) are introduced. The fatigue damage in membrane interface is related to the amount...conference paper 2015
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Leegwater, G.A. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author)Asphalt concrete has the advantageous ability to heal autonomously, however the mechanisms behind this are not fully understood. To increase insight in the healing mechanism, the healing model used in polymer science is adopted. It interprets healing as the sum of wetting and intrinsic healing. The presented work introduces a new test set-up,...conference paper 2016
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Leegwater, G.A. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author)Damage in pavements is known to reduce over time when the material is left to rest, this phenomenon is known as healing. It has been shown that healing is an important influence factor in pavement performance. However, an accepted method to assess the healing capability of a pavement is currently not available. Healing of cracks is assumed to be...conference paper 2016
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Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Avgerinopoulos, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)This paper investigates the moisture susceptibility of European asphalt mixtures (SMA) containing reclaimed asphalt (RA) and warm mix (WMA) additives. Test sections of a typical SMA mixture have been laid, from which cylindrical samples were cored and utilized for laboratory testing. Four variants of the SMA mixture were prepared; a control HMA...conference paper 2016