Rheology of bitumen and asphalt mixtures [grd1rb]
| Civil Engineering |
Lectures using audiovisual presentations, working on scientific research projects, laboratory exercises, seminar work.
Utilization of modern methods for testing an determination of rheological properties of bitumen and asphalt mixtures.
The students will be able to apply modern methods for testing the rheological properties of materials, for the purpose of asphalt mixtures and pavement design.
Modern methods of defining the rheological properties of materials in the pavement. Bitumen. Rheological properties of bitumen. The method of Superpave testing rheological properties of bitumen at high and low temperatures (viscosity), shear strength, flexural strength, direct tensile) . The analysis of the bitumen to the harmonized European standards. Polymer modified bitumen. Asphalt mixtures. Rheological properties of asphalt mixtures. Constitutive models. Fundamental analysis of mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures (complex modulus, shear strength, resistance to fatigue) . The simulation tests (resistance to permanent deformation). Application of the results in the asphalt mixture. New materials.
1. Papagiannakis A.T., Masad, E.A.: Pavement Design and Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008
2. Y.Richard Kim: Modeling of Asphalt Concrete, McGraw Hill & ASCE Press, Reston, Virginia, 2009
3. Linbing Wang: Mechanics of Asphalt, Microstructure and Micromechanics, McGraw Hill, 2011
4. The Shell Bitumen Handbook, Shell Bitumen, 2003
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