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Investigation of the potential use of calcium alginate capsules for self-healing in porous asphalt concrete

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

Shi Xu (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Xueyan Liu (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Amir Tabaković (Dublin Institute of Technology, University College Dublin)

Erik Schlangen (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Research Group
Materials and Environment
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12010168 Final published version
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Research Group
Materials and Environment
Issue number
1
Volume number
12
Article number
168
Event
International Conference on Sustainable Mega Infrastructures and International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials: Design, Performance and Application (2018-08-10 - 2018-08-11), Wuhan City, China
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Abstract

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 system will improve healing capacity of a full asphalt mix. To this aim, this paper reports on study which investigate effect of the calcium alginate capsules onto self-healing capacity of the porous asphalt mix. X-ray computed tomography (XCT) was used to visualize the distribution of the capsules in porous asphalt. The effect of the capsules on fracture resistance of porous asphalt concrete was studied by semi-circular bending (SCB) tests. A semi-circular bending and healing programme was carried out to evaluate the healing effect of these capsules in porous asphalt concrete. Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus (ITSM) tests were employed in order to investigate the influence of the capsules on the stiffness of the porous asphalt concrete. The results indicate that incorporating calcium alginate capsules significantly improve the healing capacity of porous asphalt concrete without compromising its performance.