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Properties of High Stability Asphalt Mixture

Publication year Port and Airport Research Institute Technical Note 1280 2013.12
Author(s) Naoya KAWAMURA,Yoshiyuki MORIKAWA,Masato MURAYAMA,Toshiaki HIRATO,Ryota MAEKAWA
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Structural Engineering Field Pavement Group
Executive Summary

High stability asphalt mixture has highly resistance to viscous deformation that is equal to semi-flexible pavement material under the vehicle loading and has oil resistance. The pavement using the mixture can place in service on the next day after the construction. The mixture might be one of the promising materials for controlling severe rutting under the heavy loadings of aircrafts and the severe time constrains for construction of airport pavement. However application of the mixture to airport pavement has not been studied. The inhibiting effect of rutting and grooving damage is not clear under the aircraft loading.
 For the purpose of applying the mixture to airport pavement, the authors evaluate the properties of the mixture in laboratory tests that simulate the environment of airport pavement, and investigate durability of the test pavement using the materials in field tests. As a result, under the load condition designed with aircraft loading, it shows that the special add-in material for the mixture needs to be added more than 25% of optimum asphalt content to achieve resistance to viscous deformation of semi-flexible pavement material in laboratory tests. In the field tests, it is confirmed that the rutting resistance of the pavement using the mixture is as inhibiting effect of rutting as the pavement using polymer modified asphalt mixture under the large aircraft loading. On the other hand, the superiority in the resistance of grooving deformation is confirmed.

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