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Jingqing Huang1, Bei Chen1, Yingchun Cai1
1School of Water Conservancy and Transportation, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Abstract:
This study introduces five types of wax materials to replace traditional Sasobit warm mix agents (WMAs), aiming to reduce the aging performance of high-viscosity modified asphalt (HMA) under high temperatures and optimize wax-based WMAs for a better warm mix effect and more stable performance of HMA. In this study, styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) modifier was first used to prepare HMA, and then wax materials were added to prepare HMA. Thin-Film Oven Tests (TFOTs) and Pressure Aging Vessel (PAV) aging tests were conducted, followed by dynamic shear rheology (DSR) tests, to study the high-temperature rheological properties of each warm mix HMA. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) tests and fluorescence microscopy were used to observe the microstructures of the asphalt. The results show that all six wax materials exhibited good warm mix effects, among which refined Fischer-Tropsch Wax 1 (RFW1) outperforms conventional Sasobit WMA in terms of warm mix effect, high-temperature rheological properties, and anti-aging performance, indicating its potential to replace Sasobit in engineering applications.
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