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Le Yu1, Shiyuan You1,2, Zhaoyi He1,3
1School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China.
Abstract:
The blending degree between virgin asphalt and aged asphalt has a significant effect on road performance of reclaimed asphalt mixture. This study presented an innovative examination of blending behavior between virgin asphalt and aged asphalt incorporating a new bio-based warm-mix rejuvenator (BWR) by utilizing Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Through analyzing the variation of several micro-morphology parameters between virgin asphalt and aged asphalt (or recycled asphalt) after blending, an index of regenerative blending degree (RBD) was proposed to quantitatively evaluate their blending behavior, and the effect of various blending temperatures and durations on regenerative blending degree was investigated. The results show that the regenerative blending degree between virgin asphalt and aged asphalt was higher than that between virgin asphalt and recycled asphalt under the same blending condition. A clear linear correlation was observed between the regenerative blending degree calculated by 3D micro-morphology parameters and the dosage of bio-based warm-mix rejuvenator in recycled asphalt, with a correlation coefficient of 0.98. With the increase in blending duration, the regenerative blending degree between virgin asphalt and recycled asphalt increased first and then decreased, but continued to improve with the increase in blending temperature, which indicates that a higher blending temperature and prolonging the blending duration properly have a positive effect on the blending processing between virgin asphalt and recycled asphalt. Compared with the regenerative blending degree calculated by 2D micro-morphology parameters, the regenerative blending degree calculated by 3D micro-morphology parameters is more reasonable to quantify the blending behavior between virgin asphalt and recycled asphalt.
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