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Tabakovic, A. (author), Braak, Dirk (author), van Gerwen, Mark (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author), Post, W. (author), Garcia, Santiago J. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)This article presents development of a novel self-healing technology for asphalt pavements, where asphalt binder rejuvenator is encapsulated within the compartmented alginate fibres. The key objective of the study was to optimise the compartmented alginate fibre design, i.e., maximising amount of rejuvenator encapsulated within the fibre. The...journal article 2017
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Tabakovic, A. (author), Schuyffel, L.S. (author), Karač, Aleksandar (author), Schlangen, E. (author)This paper explores the potential methods for evaluating a healing system for asphalt pavements. The healing system under investigation involves compartmented calcium-alginate fibres encapsulating an asphalt binder healing agent (rejuvenator). This system presents a novel method of incorporating rejuvenators into asphalt pavement mixtures....journal article 2017
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Xu, S. (author), Tabakovic, A. (author), Liu, X. (author), Palin, D. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)It has been demonstrated that calcium alginate capsules can be used as an asphalt healing system by pre-placing rejuvenator (healing agent) into the asphalt mix and releasing the rejuvenator on demand (upon cracking). This healing mechanism relies on the properties of capsules which are determined by the capsule preparation process. In this...journal article 2019
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Xu, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Tabaković, Amir (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Improving the healing capacity of asphalt is proving to be an effective method to prolong the service life of an asphalt pavement. The calcium alginate capsules encapsulating rejuvenator have been developed and proved to provide successful localized crack healing in asphalt mastic. However, it is not known whether this self-healing asphalt...journal article 2019