Comparative Characterization of Aged Bitumen Properties

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. Vol.500: International Conference "Baltic Polymer Symposium 2018" 2019
Agnese Ābele, Remo Merijs-Meri, Rita Bērziņa, Jānis Zicāns, Tatjana Ivanova, Viktors Haritonovs

To provide higher rates of reclaimed bitumen uses in road industry better understanding about aging of bitumen is needed, which requires to get complete information about influence of aggressive environmental factors on bitumen. In this paper changes of bitumen structural and rheological parameters upon ageing are evaluated by using one of the most known method, RTFOT in comparison to alternative procedures, as thermally and ultraviolet light irradiation induced aging. Calorimetric properties of the raw and aged bitumens are determined by MDSC, chemical composition by FTIR and rheological parameters (viscosity, rutting resistance and fatigue cracking resistance) by DSR. The results confirm that mentioned alternative aging procedures can be used to some extent for prediction of real field-aged bitumen properties changes.

Keywords
CAlternative proceduresomparative characterizations, Chemical compositions,
DOI
10.1088/1757-899X/500/1/012036
Hyperlink
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/500/1/012036/meta

Ābele, A., Merijs-Meri, R., Bērziņa, R., Zicāns, J., Ivanova, T., Haritonovs, V. Comparative Characterization of Aged Bitumen Properties. In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. Vol.500: International Conference "Baltic Polymer Symposium 2018", Latvia, Jurmala, 12-14 September, 2018. Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2019, Article number 012036. ISSN 1757-8981. e-ISSN 1757-899X. Available from: doi:10.1088/1757-899X/500/1/012036

Publication language
English (en)