The evaluation, adoption, and efficient deployment of asphalt additives in flexible pavements has historically been a relatively slow process, requiring years of testing and evaluation before a new product may be fully and readily used in pavement cross-sections. However, the fast-paced and innovative nature of the additive marketplace produces numerous products that have the potential to improve performance, reduce costs, or both, but have been hindered by slow deployment. To address the need for a more rapid set of evaluation tools, the National Center for Asphalt Technology Test Track initiated an Additive Group experiment in 2021 to build full-scale pavement test sections modified with several asphalt additives, including recycled tire rubber, recycled plastics, reactive polymers, and aramid fibers. Data will be collected from these test sections to develop a framework for evaluating asphalt additives in the future. Phase 1 of the investigation was to conduct limited laboratory testing and structural analysis from which a group of additives would be selected for full-scale construction and evaluation. Focused on fatigue cracking, this paper details the laboratory testing conducted for Phase 1 and two different structural pavement analysis methods using FlexPAVE™ and WESLEA. Even though the two structural pavement analysis methods are very different, the FlexPAVE and WESLEA analyses provided strongly correlated predicted cracking performance, remarkably similar predictions of equivalent pavement thicknesses, and nearly identical structural layer coefficients. It is recommended that these two approaches be further evaluated against laboratory and field performance data that will be collected from the Additive Group experiment.


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    Title :

    Comparison of Relative Structural Characterization Methods for Additive-Modified Asphalt Mixtures


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Timm, David H. (author) / Yin, Fan (author) / Tran, Nam (author) / Foshee, Megan (author) / Rodezno, Carolina (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-06-06




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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