Effect of Thermal Cycles on Hot Mix Asphalt

Mahjoub Bendjima; Mhamed Merbouh; Bachir Glaoui

doi:10.15866/irece.v8i2.11331

Effect of Thermal Cycles on Hot Mix Asphalt

Mahjoub Bendjima^(1*), Mhamed Merbouh⁽²⁾, Bachir Glaoui⁽³⁾

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irece.v8i2.11331

Abstract

Depending on the region and in the course of one year, the pavement undergoes many thermal cycles. Thermal cycles, in addition to the traffic burden, represent significant parameters in the study of damage in Hot Mix Asphalt. This work contributes to the comprehension of the behavior of Hot Mix Asphalt under freeze/thaw cycles in winter or in seasonal frozen regions and likewise to the heating/cooling phenomenon during the summer or in hot regions. The results of creep test suggest that thermal cycles influence the rheological behavior of hot–mix asphalt at a low, intermediate and high temperature. The findings also confirm that the thermal cycles lead to the hardening and to the reduction of the asphalt performance due to the loss of the viscoelasticity property, which precipitates the degradation of pavement.
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Keywords

Asphalt; Behavior; Creep; Temperature; Thermal Cycles

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