Characterization and modelling of self healing of bituminous materials towards durable asphalt pavement

The traffic volume and the number of heavy vehicles are growing enormously nowadays. There is a need for designing a durable asphalt pavement with innovative technologies. Pavement structures and materials with self healing and self repairing capability are believed to be very useful in such a system. This paper is aiming to understand the self...

Advanced Pull Test to Determine Adhesion Properties of Thin Surfaces for Pavement

Thin surfaces are specially designed to provide significant additional surface properties to pavements without affecting other qualities of the surface such as ride quality and durability. In addition to economic benefits, thin surfaces can protect pavements against deterioration caused by traffic and weather. One of the most important...

Development of an autonomous setup for evaluating self healing capability of asphalt mixtures

It is a well known fact that asphalt mixtures have self healing capabilities. Yet most of the self healing investigations are carried out using complex and time consuming fatigue tests. In order to investigate the self healing capability in a simple and efficient manner, a beam on elastic foundation test setup (BOEF) is proposed in this paper....

Self healing of road-use bituminous materials: Mechanical characterization and its modelling (abstract)