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Laboratory and Field Research on Using Cement and Polyester Fiber to Enhance the Performance of Emulsified Asphalt Cold Recycled Mixture

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Cold recycling method minimizes the need for aggregates while building roads and has significant economic and environmental benefits. The cold recycled mixture's inadequate mechanical strength, however, is a significant flaw. This article presents the strength increase equation after first analyzing the increasing law of the mechanical strength of the emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture. The mechanical strength, high-temperature performance and low-temperature performance of emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture have all been examined after the use of cement and fiber. The reinforcing effect of the fiber is also confirmed through field testing. Studies have shown that after 48 h, the mechanical properties of the emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture become stable, and the increase is small. The correlation between the proposed strength growth equation and the laboratory test results reaches 0.99. With the addition of 1.5% cement, the high-temperature performance and low-temperature performance of asphalt mixture can be improved by 33% and 18%, respectively. The 0.4% of fiber can improve the high-temperature performance and low-temperature performance of asphalt mixture by 6% and 19%, respectively. Analyze the effect of cement and fiber on the performance of the emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture, and choose the optimal content of cement and emulsified asphalt to be 1.5% and 0.4%, respectively.

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Abbreviations

EACM:

Emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture

VA:

Virgin aggregates

RAP:

Reclaimed asphalt pavement

SBE:

Slow breaking emulsified asphalt

MBE:

Medium breaking emulsified asphalt

SBSE:

Styrene-butadiene block copolymer-modified emulsified asphalt

SBRE:

Styrene-butadiene-rubber-modified emulsified asphalt

VVTM:

Vertical vibration test method

ρ max :

The maximum dry density

OWC :

Optimal moisture content

OEC :

Optimal emulsified asphalt content

C-EACM:

Cement-emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture

F-EACM:

Fiber-emulsified asphalt cold recycled mixture

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This research was supported by the Science and Technology Project of the Shannxi Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 20-02K), the Science and Technology Project of the Henan Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 2020J-2-2) and the Shaanxi Province Innovation Capability Support Program Project (No. 2022TD-06). The authors gratefully acknowledge all the financial support.

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  3. College of Urban and Rural Construction, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, 422000, China

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YY contributed to conceptualization, methodology, data curation and writing–original draft preparation. YJ contributed to conceptualization, writing–reviewing and editing and ultravision. TT contributed to investigation, validation. JF contributed to software and validation. CB contributed to data curation. YT contributed to visualization. JF contributed to validation. CD contributed to investigation.

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Jiang, Y., Yi, Y., Tian, T. et al. Laboratory and Field Research on Using Cement and Polyester Fiber to Enhance the Performance of Emulsified Asphalt Cold Recycled Mixture. Arab J Sci Eng 48, 4937–4951 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07260-z

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