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Heating Characteristics and Induced Healing Efficiencies of Asphalt Mixture via Induction and Microwave Heating
Quantao Liu1,2, Cheng Chen3, Bin Li4
1State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan 430070, China. liuqt@whut.edu.cn.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the heating characteristics and induced healing efficiencies of asphalt mixture containing steel fiber under induction heating and microwave heating. The heating characteristics of an asphalt mixture with different heating methods were studied with an infrared camera. The healing performance of the asphalt mixture specimens in different healing conditions were investigated by observing the crack closure and testing the fracture resistance recovery after healing. The results showed that the heating speed at the surface of asphalt mixture with induction heating was much higher than that with microwave machine heating, under a similar output power and the same method of radiation. While the temperature distribution within the asphalt mixture under induction heating was quite uneven, microwave heating resulted in a more uniform temperature distribution. The effective heating depth of microwave heating is much higher than that of induction heating. Gradient healing occurred within the sample heated with induction healing, while a uniform healing effect can be achieved with microwave heating.
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