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Ageing process effect on thermal and rheological behaviour of asphalt binder modified with recycled polyethylene and waste tyre rubber

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The present study aims to achieve a further understanding on interactions in the asphalt binder modified by adding waste tyre rubber (WTR) and recycled polyethylene (RPE), as well as using the ageing process. Thermogravimetric analyses showed that the mixture thermal stability was only affected after the ageing process, which increased by the addition of up to 3% RPE. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) showed no RPE melting after the binder’s ageing, suggesting a homogeneous mixture formation. Infrared spectroscopy analyses demonstrated that the binder ageing process promoted the hydroxyl groups oxidation to carbonyl groups, reducing the system polarity and promoting a better binder-RPE interaction. Rheological analyses showed that WTR and RPE addition improved the binder’s properties; however, after ageing process, samples containing RPE had a distinctive behaviour forming a homogeneous mixture.

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The authors would like to thank the Brazilian research funding agencies CAPES and CNPQ for their financial support.

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  1. Instituto Latino-Americano de Tecnologia Infraestrutura e Território, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85866-000, Brazil

    Marcio Evandro Guimarães, Edna Possan & Ricardo Oliveira de Souza

  2. Centro de Engenharias e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Toledo, PR, 85903-000, Brazil

    Fernando Reinoldo Scremin

  3. Departamento Acadêmico de Química, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Medianeira, PR, 85884-000, Brazil

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MEG contributed to conceptualisation, methodology, and data collection. FRS contributed to methodology, data collection, original draft writing preparation, and results analysis. PRSB performed data collection, results analysis, writing-reviewing, and editing. EP contributed to methodology, writing-reviewing, and editing. ROS contributed to fund raising, conceptualisation, supervision, methodology, results analysis, writing-reviewing, and editing.

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Guimarães, M.E., Scremin, F.R., Bittencourt, P.R.S. et al. Ageing process effect on thermal and rheological behaviour of asphalt binder modified with recycled polyethylene and waste tyre rubber. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 663–674 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11810-w

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