Investigation of Low Temperature Thermal Cracking in Hot Mix Asphalt

摘要

A study was performed to determine the influence of material properties on thethermal cracking performance of hot mix asphalt (HMA), and to determine the ability to predict thermal cracking from pavements of known field performance. The testing device used to measure the HMA properties was the thermal-stress, restrained-specimen test (TSRST), and the device used to measure the binder properties was the bending beam rheometer (BBR).