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LI, BOWEN (author)
This master's thesis addresses a critical gap in the field of road construction by focusing on the limitations of Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene modified bitumen (SBS-MB), a widely-used binder. While SBS-MB offers superior performance, its long-term efficacy is compromised due to various aging processes. Existing rejuvenators are insufficient for...
master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Junyan (author)
The widespread use of traditional bitumen, derived from finite crude oil resources, has led to growing concerns over its environmental impact, long-term availability, and cost. These challenges underscore the urgent need for sustainable, alternative binders in infrastructure applications such as road construction. Although previous research has...
master thesis 2023
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Pratap Singh, Satvik (author)
The Netherlands has one of the densest road networks with over 140,000 km of roadways. Fatigue cracking is an important distress in flexible pavements. This form of distress results from the application of repeated traffic loading which causes failure. Fatigue cracking assessment on various base layer asphalt mixtures including reclaimed asphalt...
master thesis 2023
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Mota Lontra, Bernardo (author)
The Netherlands is a northwestern European country. The location makes the Netherlands an important entry for trade to the European continent resulting in high traffic intensities [1]. The Netherlands has one of the densest road networks in the world, having over 139.000km of roadways [2, 3]. The understanding of the link between the functional...
master thesis 2022
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van Akker, Jorn (author)
Because of the sustainability transition in the asphalt industry, it is increasingly popular to apply reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) instead of new asphalt. Then, less new material is needed and the amount of waste products is reduced. However, there are questions regarding the performance of asphalt mixtures with high RAP percentages,...
master thesis 2022
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Trimarchi Maldonado, Jorge (author)
Pavement structures are assessed based on its functional and structural capacity in order to evaluate the safety of its use. Structural pavement evaluation is often carried out by road authorities or consulting companies that use non-destructive testing (NDT) methods to assess the remaining life and structural capacity of a road structure at...
master thesis 2021
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Sharma, Saurabh (author)
Pavement undergoes a fast deterioration process either due to the damages induced by weather conditions, an increase in traffic flow and load, or passive factors like aging of infrastructure. Thus requiring periodic rehabilitation measures to maintain the condition of the underlying asset. Since damages on the asphalt road, impose economic...
master thesis 2020
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Martini, Giulia (author)
Despite therelevance of the road infrastructure, the mechanisms governing the mechanicalproperties of asphalt concrete pavements, are currently not sufficientlyunderstood. Many empirical models of different complexity are proposed in theliterature; however, (i) they all have below high (R2 =0.85) predictiveaccuracy; (ii)...
master thesis 2019
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Buchagul, Jirawat (author)
The crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) has been utilized in pavement industries to mainly reduce the environmental impacts of the wasted tires by turning unwanted scrap tires into new bituminous materials. However, the relatively high viscosity compared to the conventional asphalt is the major drawback of the CRMB. The higher mixing and...
master thesis 2019
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MASTORAS, Filip (author)
Ageing of bitumen has been long-recognized as one of the major reasons responsible for the gradual deterioration of asphalt pavements. Age-hardening of the binder leads to the embrittlement of the overall asphalt mixture, which entails its increased susceptibility to traffic and environmental induced damage. As a result, high maintenance efforts...
master thesis 2019
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Aelen, Thomas (author)
Recycled granular materials such as Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) and Recycled Crushed Masonry (RCM) are widely used in The Netherlands as base layers in asphalt pavements. The lack of natural resources and the growing amounts of demolition waste made that the Dutch industries in the early 1980s started to explore the possibilities to use...
master thesis 2019
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Christian Gerald Daniel, Gerald (author)
The use of synthetic fibres has been reported to enhance the performance of asphalt pavement materials in terms of permanent deformation, fatigue and thermal cracking. However, limited results about the benefits of synthetic fibres in the reinforced warm-mix asphaltic materials, and the exact mechanism of reinforcing the binding part in pavement...
master thesis 2018
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Pipintakos, George (author)
The increasing traffic load has led to the use of polymer modifiers in bituminous mixes in order to improve the performance and the durability of the pavement structures. Epoxy is a thermoset material which ensures enhanced fatigue performance and improved mechanical characteristics when used to modify bituminous materials. However, unlike...
master thesis 2018
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