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Performance of hot mix epoxy asphalt binder and its concrete

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Hot mix epoxy asphalt (HMEA) binders have been widely used on the pavement of orthotropic steel bridge decks. In present paper, rotational viscosity, glass transition temperature, damping properties, mechanical properties, and morphology of HMEA were investigated using Brookfield rotational viscometer, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), universal material tester, laser scanning confocal microscopy. Furthermore, the high temperature deformation resistance, rutting resistance, and fatigue cracking resistance of HMEA concretes (HMEACs) were evaluated using Marshall, wheel tracking, and three-point bending tests. Results show that the addition of asphalts postpones the cure reaction of epoxy resin. The rotational viscosity of HMEA binder keeps low enough to meet the demands of asphalt mixture mixing and paving at 160 °C. DMA results show that HMEA exhibits excellent damping properties. The addition of asphalts lowers the tensile strength and modulus of epoxy resin. However, the elongation at break of HMEA increases with the increase of asphalt contents. HMEACs exhibit good resistance to high temperature deformation, rutting, and fatigue cracking performances. All these results show that HMEA binder exhibits excellent performance in the steel bridge pavement.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the financial support from Opening Funds of National Engineering Laboratory for Advance Road Materials, Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation (BK2011085), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20620140066). The authors are also grateful to Dr. Sunjie Ye for language help.

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  1. Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Haiyan Yin, Yuge Zhang, Yifan Sun, Hongfeng Xie & Rongshi Cheng

  2. Road Engineering Institute, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China

    Wei Xu

  3. National Engineering Laboratory for Advance Road Materials, Jiangsu Transportation Institute, Nanjing, 211112, China

    Dier Yu

  4. College of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China

    Rongshi Cheng

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Yin, H., Zhang, Y., Sun, Y. et al. Performance of hot mix epoxy asphalt binder and its concrete. Mater Struct 48, 3825–3835 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-014-0442-0

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