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Mapping the Relationship Between Diffusion Characteristics of Warm-Mix Recycled Asphalt on Molecular Dynamics (MD)
Xin Jin1,2,3, Shanshan Meng1, Haoxuan Fu1
1School of Transportation and Geomatics Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, China.
Abstract:
Warm-mix recycled asphalt (WMA-R) technology for reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) significantly reduces energy consumption and environmental pollution while maintaining the performance of asphalt mixtures. Significant progress has been made at home and abroad in evaluating the impact of regenerated asphalt mixtures on the performance of regenerated asphalt. However, the performance improvement of WMA-R depends on the effective diffusion of regenerated agents and their interaction mechanism with aged asphalt, which has not been fully studied. This paper systematically studies the diffusion characteristics of biomimetic-based warm-mix regenerant in aged asphalt and its impact on the high- and low-temperature performance of asphalt mixtures through MD and experimental verification. The results show that biomimetic-based warm-mix regenerant can significantly improve the diffusion performance of aged asphalt. Through the rutting test and low-temperature bending test, the significant improvement of the biomimetic-based warm-mix regenerant in the rutting resistance and crack resistance of asphalt mixtures was verified.
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