Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and
environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly …

Asphalt binders play an integral role in the performance and properties of asphalt mixtures.
Increased traffic-related factors on the roadways such as heavier loads, higher traffic …

Significant volumes of waste materials such as plastics is generated every year worldwide
with a potentially harmful impact on the environment. At the same time, the demand for …

The need for sustainable asphalt highway design and construction is becoming a priority
within the asphalt transportation industry. This trend is necessitated by the high diminishing …

An extensive literature review on the modelling of the linear viscoelastic (LVE) rheological
properties of bitumen over the last six decades is presented in this paper. The use of reliable …

The ageing of bitumen is an inevitable phenomenon which is still challenging to be
characterised. This paper aims at evaluating the ageing degrees of bitumen …

Bitumen, a product mostly used as a binder in road construction, has been subject of
numerous scientific investigations with the goal to optimise its function as an engineering …

The linear viscoelastic properties of bituminous mixtures are used to design pavement
structure. Usually, only complex moduli E*(complex Young modulus) or G*(complex shear …

New experimental polymer-modified bitumen with a high-vinyl content polymer was
fabricated for porous asphalt (PA) mixtures. The bitumen with maximum stability was …

Fatigue and rutting are the two major failure distresses in flexible pavement that affect
significantly the serviceability of pavement. The properties of bitumen have a direct effect on …