Analysis of Impact of Aggregate Coating by Bitumen on Micro Texture Change

Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Research in Science, Engineering and Technology

Year: 2019

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Analysis of Impact of Aggregate Coating by Bitumen on Micro Texture Change

Zuzana Florkova, Jana Pastorkova, Juliana Drabikova, Zuzana Kolkova and Peter Hrabovsky

ABSTRACT: 

Asphalt pavement microtexture values primarily depend on aggregate properties used in asphalt pavement mixture and by aggregate surfaces is secured the basic contact medium with vehicle tires. It often happens that new asphalt surfaces have not required skid resistance properties and is needed a certain period of time to eliminate film of bitumen binder which is coating the aggregate grain on the surface of pavement by action of vehicles. In most cases, the investigation of the aggregate microtexture impact on the pavement skid resistance properties is carried out under laboratory conditions and generally relates only to measurements on natural aggregate samples (without bitumen). However, due to coating of aggregate by bitumen binder, valleys between the individual peaks of aggregate are filled. Obviously, it can be supposed that the usage of high amount of bitumen content can leads to decreasing of aggregate microtexture values. From this point of view, it can be expected that change in microtexture values depends on the content of binder in the asphalt mixture. Particular aggregate grains were taken from asphalt mixtures samples (AC 8, AC 11 and SMA 11) produced in the laboratory, in order to determine the impact of aggregate coating by bitumen binder on microtexture change. Each usage asphalt mixture was produced with three different bitumen binder contents. Digital image analysis method was used for subsequent evaluation. Changes in the microtexture values depending on the amount of used bitumen binder and also on the calculated theoretical bitumen film thickness are investigated in the conclusion.

Keywords: asphalt mixture, binder content, bitumen film thickness, digital image analyse, microscope.