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Cracking Analysis of Asphalt Mixture Using Semi-circle Bending Method

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The stiffness, fracture toughness, fracture energy and tensile strength are commonly used as the primary parameters to evaluate the properties of asphalt mixture cracking and used as inputs in numerical simulation. In this paper a semi-circle bending (SCB) test was conducted to investigate the influence of temperature levels, binder types and loading speeds on those parameters. Moreover, the extended finite element method (XFEM) was utilized to simulate SCB test. And stiffness, tensile strength and fracture energy obtained from SCB test were used as the inputs in XFEM models. The tests were performed at different temperature levels of 5 ℃, −5 ℃ and −20 ℃, different loading speeds of 0.0005 mm/s and 0.005 mm/s, respectively. The styrene–butadiene–styrene (SBS)-modified asphalt, rubber–plastic-modified asphalt and Qilu No.70 road petroleum asphalt were used as the binders of asphalt mixtures. From load versus loading displacement curves which were obtained from SCB test, stiffness, fracture toughness, fracture energy and tensile strength were calculated. The influences of temperature levels, binder types and loading speed on the parameters were analysed. In addition, extended finite element method (XFEM), which is particularly well suited to model discontinuous features, is used to analyse the effects of initial notch width and notch shape on SCB test.

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The work presented in this paper was partly sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LY19E080009), Shandong Provincial Young Scholars Innovative Research Team Development Program in Colleges and Universities (2019KJG004) and Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program of China (2017GGX50101).

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  1. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315000, China

    Xiaoying Wang & Yong Ding

  2. Key Laboratory of Green Construction and Intelligent Maintenance for Civil Engineering of Hebei Province, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Jinghui Zhang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315000, China

    Kai Li

  4. School of Traffic Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, 250101, China

    Litao Geng

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Wang, X., Zhang, J., Li, K. et al. Cracking Analysis of Asphalt Mixture Using Semi-circle Bending Method. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Civ Eng 45, 269–279 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-020-00520-8

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