Aging of binders in pavements is much less understood than laboratory aging of neat binders because of a number of complications. Complications include suitable extraction and recovery methods; uncontrolled variables and unknowns such as mixture characteristics (e.g., air voids), maintenance treatments, traffic, and climate; sustaining of a research effort to study a given pavement during an appropriate time frame (in excess of one decade); and cost. An ongoing research effort sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation studied binder oxidative hardening at 15 pavements across Texas. Results indicate that typically unmodified binders in pavements oxidize and harden to a degree that exceeds generally accepted pavement aging assumptions. In addition, this hardening may extend much deeper into the pavement than has been previously assumed or documented. Data suggest that pavements can oxidize at surprisingly uniform rates with depth once early oxidation occurs and that these rates continue for an extended time. As a rough measure, 1 month environmental room aging of 1-mm neat binder films at 60°C was equivalent to about 15 months in Texas Highway 21 after the early higher hardening rate period.


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    Title :

    Binder Oxidative Aging in Texas Pavements


    Subtitle :

    Hardening Rates, Hardening Susceptibilities, and Impact of Pavement Depth


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board




    Publication date :

    2006-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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