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Contribution of Oxygen and Ultraviolet Light to the Adhesion Properties of Warm Mix Asphalt During the
Jianbing Ma1, Bo Li2, Yongning Wang2,3
1Gansu Province Traffic Investment Management Co., Ltd., Lanzhou 730030, China.
Objective:
We investigated the contribution of oxygen and UV light to the UV aging process of warm mix asphalt (WMA).
Methods:
In this paper, warm mix asphalt was prepared with different aging methods (RTFOT, PAV and UV) and UV aging times (50 h, 100 h, 150 h and 200 h). The cohesion and bonding functions of WMA were tested using surface free energy theory. In addition, the UV aging functional groups of WMA were analyzed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). On this basis, the contribution of oxygen and ultraviolet light to the UV aging of WMA was analyzed using the random forest model.
Results And Conclusions:
The results showed that UV aging had the greatest effect on the adhesion property index and functional group index of WMA, followed by PAV aging, and RTFOT aging had the least effect. With the extension of UV aging time, the adhesion and cohesion functions of WMA showed a decreasing trend, while the carbonyl index and sulfoxide index showed an increasing trend. When the UV aging time exceeded 150 h, the adhesion function and functional group index of WMA gradually tended to stabilize. The effect of UV aging on the adhesive properties of WMA was mainly due to adhesive damage. There were significant differences in the effects of oxygen isolation and light-oxygen-coupled UV aging on the adhesive properties and functional group index of WMA. In the light-oxygen-coupled UV aging of warm mix asphalt, the contribution of UV radiation was 79.9%, and the contribution of oxygen was 20.1%.
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