Modified bitumen is a critical material to ensure the durability of asphalt pavements.
Traditional polymer-modified bitumen (PMB) has been widely researched and applied in the …

Roads serve as a backbone of developing economies; thousands of kilometres of new roads
are built every year and old ones are continuously repaired. Due to the large areal …

Nanotechnology remains a relatively new innovation for the oil and gas industry. However,
many applications have now become an integral part of some of its key technological …

The ageing phenomenon in asphalt mixtures is one of the most important factors affecting its
service life. The current paper provides an overview of a number of studies related to the …

In the past decades, Polyurethane (PU) as an emerging polymer material has been widely
used to construct, repair, reinforce, and protect civil engineering infrastructures. Meanwhile …

SBS modified asphalt (SBSMA) is widely used in asphalt pavement, but due to the
characteristics of the materials and the effects of the environment and construction, the …

The compatibility between crumb rubber (CR) and asphalt binder plays a key role in the
storage stability and rheological performance of rubberized asphalt binder. This review …

In Canada, over 90% of the paved roads are asphalt pavements. Most of these pavements
were built decades ago, which are currently exhibiting a significant amount of surface …

The detrimental effects of hardening in asphalt pavements were first recognized by
pioneering pavement engineers in the 1900s and have been studied extensively during the …

This paper reviews techniques and analyses performed on microstructure of the asphalt
binder and mixture using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Environmental …