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Establishment and verification of a developed viscoelastic damage model and creep instability criterion for modified fine asphalt mortar

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Fine asphalt mortar (FAM) affects the pavement performance of asphalt concrete (AC) significantly, especially for the FAM modified by Polymer modifiers. However, most of the previous studies mainly concentrated on the decelerated creep stage and equi-velocity creep stage, while rarely focused on the accelerated creep stage. In this paper, a developed model is proposed, coupling the Kachanov damage theory and Lemaitre rule to describe the whole stage of the creep response of modified FAM. Then this model was calibrated and validated by comparing the predicted results and measured results, which were obtained from the Uniaxial Compression Creep (UCC) test using the Dynamic Mechanics Analyzer (DMA) under various testing conditions. In addition, a novel creep instability criterion is also proposed to judge the initiation point of the accelerated creep stage. The results indicate that the developed model can characterize three-stage creep deformation behavior of all kinds FAMs completely. Compared with the traditional flow time, the novel creep instability criterion shows more consistency with the actual state of the testing specimens. Furthermore, the effects of stress levels and temperatures on the creep behavior of FAM are investigated using this novel creep instability criterion. It concludes that the creep performance of both neat and modified FAM is significantly weakened with increase of temperatures and stress levels. In addition, a stress threshold is found. If the applied stress level is higher than the threshold, creep instability would occur in a short time. Otherwise, it would be difficult to enter the accelerated creep stage.

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This research is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 51978073) and the Science and Technology Department of Henan Province (No.202102310263). The author would like express their sincere appreciation to the aforementioned organization. In addition, Bowei Sun wants to thank, in particular, the company, care and support from Shenxi Li over the eight years.

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Sun, B., Hao, P., Zhang, H. et al. Establishment and verification of a developed viscoelastic damage model and creep instability criterion for modified fine asphalt mortar. Mater Struct 55, 107 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-022-01951-7

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