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Integrating Pavement Sensing Data for Pavement Condition Evaluation [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Highway pavements are usually monitored in terms of their surface performance assessment, since the major cause that triggers maintenance is reduced pavement serviceability due to surface distresses, excessive pavement unevenness and/or texture loss.
Konstantinos Gkyrtis +2 more
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Mechanistic Analysis of Asphalt Pavements in Support of Pavement Preservation Decision-Making
Infrastructures, 2022 Modern roadways provide road users with a comfortable and safe ride to their destinations. Due to increasing traffic demands and maximum allowable loads, road authorities should also pay attention to the structural soundness of road pavements while ...
Konstantinos Gkyrtis +2 more
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Application of FT-IR technique to bituminous materials
Budownictwo i Architektura, 2014 Spectroscopy is a fundamental method used in the material science that relies on the interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with a matter. Infrared spectroscopy allows for material fingerprinting as well as detection and quantification of compounds
Adam Zofka +2 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023 This study aims to systematically investigate the influence of rejuvenator type/dosage and the aging degree of bitumen on the rutting resistance, flow behavior, and elastic/creep potential of rejuvenated bitumen at high temperatures.
Shisong Ren, Xueyan Liu, Sandra Erkens
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Against the backdrop of global warming and depletion of natural resources, new techniques and alternative materials need to be explored and integrated into road construction.
Christina Plati +2 more
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Materials & Design, 2023 This study aims to multiscale investigate the effects of rejuvenator type, temperature, and aging degree of bitumen on the diffusion behaviors of rejuvenators (bio-oil BO, engine-oil EO, naphthenic-oil NO, and aromatic-oil AO) in aged binders.
Shisong Ren +6 more
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Materials & Design, 2022 The compatibility potential of rejuvenators plays an important role in improving the blending degree of rejuvenated bitumen. This study aims at estimating the efficiency of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in predicting the compatibility between ...
Shisong Ren +4 more
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Micromechanical modelling of complex shear modulus of crumb rubber modified bitumen
Materials & Design, 2020 Crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) can be considered as a binary composite system where rubber particles are embedded in the bitumen matrix. The bitumen-rubber interaction process (mainly swelling) significantly changes the mechanical properties of ...
Haopeng Wang +5 more
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Implementing a pavement management system: The Caltrans experience
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2019 In this paper, the fundamental characteristics of PaveM—the pavement management system for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is introduced first, together with the various beta-testing efforts to validate and customize the ...
Zhongren Wang, Tom Pyle
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