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Bitumen Chemomechanics Related to Pavement Performance

Troy Pauli, Will Grimes, Alec Cookman, Ryan Boysen, Shin-Che Huang, Mike Farrar, Mike Harnsberger, James

Beiswenger, Pam Coles and Bruce Thomas

51st Petersen Asphalt Research Conference and Pavement Performance Prediction Symposium

Innovations for Predicting Pavement PerformanceMeasurements and Models

Hilton Garden Inn & University of Wyoming Conference CenterJuly 17, 2014, Laramie, Wyoming

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, for financial support of this project under contract no. DTFH61-07-H-00009 (ARC).

Delft University of TechnologyTom Scarpas, Sybrand van de Zwaag and Alexander Schmets

Asphalt Research Consortium Partners

Outline

• Introduction• Bitumen Composition• Asphalt Macrostructure Modeling• Bitumen Chemomechanics

• Properties of the Oil Phase • Viscous Flow• Diffusion and Molecular Mass• Thermal Fatigue

• Properties of the Maltene and Asphalt Phase• Viscous Flow• Healing

• Asphalt Macrostructure and RAP Blending• Wax Surface Freezing

• Sectorization and Rippling• Healing

• Conclusions

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Asphalt Microstructure Modeling

Damage-Healing: Entropy Production

Nosonovsky, M, and B. Bhushan, 2010, Surface Self-organization: From Wear to Self-healing in Biological and Technical Surfaces. Applied Surface Science, 256, 3982-3987.

Nosonovsky, M., and S. K. Esche, 2008, A Paradox of Decreasing Entropy in Multiscale Monte Carlo Grain Growth Simulations. Entropy, 10(2), 49-54.

Nosonovsky, M., 2010, Entropy in Tribology: in the Search for Applications. Entropy, 12(6), 1345-1390.

Nosonovsky, N., R.Amano, J. M. Lucci and P. K. Rohatgi, 2009, Physical Chemistry of Self-organization and Self-healing in Metals. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11, 9530-9536.

The net entropy production of a damage-healing systems

Entropy Production in Damage-Healing

Pauli, A. T., 2014, Chemomechanics of Damage Accumulation and Damage Recovery Self-Healing in Bituminous Asphalt Binders. Dissertation, Printed by Sieca Repro, Delft, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-6186-269-3.

Properties of the Oil Phase:

Viscous FlowDiffusion, Molecular Weight and Thermal

Fatigue

Viscous Flow of Model Oils

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Viscous Flow of Neutral Oils

Rajbongshi, P., and A. Das, 2009, Estimation of Temperature Stress and Low-Temperature Crack Spacing in Asphalt Pavements. Journal of Transportation Engineering © ASCE, October 2009, 745-752.

Rajbongshi, P., and A. Das, 2008, Thermal Fatigue Considerations in Asphalt Pavement Design. Int. J. Pavement Res. and Technol., 1(4), 129-134.

Stress Build-up: Thermal Fatigue

Stress Build-up: Thermal Fatigue

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*Bahia, H. U., 1991, Low-Temperature Isothermal Physical Hardening of Asphalt Cements. PhD Dissertation.Civil Engineering Department, Penn State University. University Park, PA.

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Pauli, A. T., M. J. Farrar, and P. M. Harnsberger, 2012, Material Property Testing of Asphalt Binders Related to Thermal Cracking in a Comparative Site Pavement Performance Study. In Scarpas, A., N. Kringos, and I. Al-Qadi (Eds.), 2012, 7th RILEM International Conference on Cracking in Pavements Mechanisms, Modeling, Testing, Detection and Prevention Case Histories. Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 233-243.

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Properties of the Maltene and Asphalt Phase:

Viscous Flow of Maltenes and Oils and Healing

Viscous flow of maltenes

Viscous flow of asphalt

Viscous flow of asphalt (influence of temperature)

Lytton, R. L., C. W. Chen and D. N. Little, 2001, Microdamage Healing in Asphalt and Asphalt Concrete, Volume III: A Micromechanics Fracture and Healing Model for Asphalt Concrete, FHWA-RD-98-143. Federal Highway Administration, U. S. Department of Transportation, McLean, VA.

Flow Properties and Healing

Flow Properties and Healing

Asphalt Microstructure and RAP Blending

Mix Model Mechanism

RAP-Asphalt Flow Properties

RAP-Asphalt Mixture Model


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Surface Freezing and Crystallization in n-

ParaffinsA Model for Wax Surface Structuring in Bitumen

Wax Surface-Freezing in Complex Media

Paraffin surface freezing “detected” byX-ray reflectivity and grazing incidence diffraction

X.Z. Wu, B.M. Ocko, E.B. Sirota, S.K. Sinha, M. Deutsch, B.H. Cao, M.W. Kim, Surface Tension Measurements of Surface Freezing in Liquid Normal Alkanes, Science, 261 (1993a) 1018-1020.


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Surface tension versus temperature plots for material groups; asphalts, IEC neutral fraction oils and model paraffins.


Pauli, T., W. Grimes. J. Beiswenger and A. J. M. Schmets, 2014, Surface Structuring of Wax in Complex Media.

J. Mater. Civ. Eng., 10, Submitted August 27, 2013; doi:10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001032.

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Sectorization and Rippling Morphologies in Paraffin

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Why Bees?: CES, Sectorization, Tilt Angle

Why Bees?: CES, Sectorization, Tilt Angle

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Artificial Bees: Paraffin in paraffin oil

Paraffin micro-crystals present in different media

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Conclusions

• The oils phase viscosity is driven by molecular weigh.• The maltene (i.e., the oils plus resins) may be considered a

polar associated solution, BUT, apparent molecular weight may be a big player in viscosity.

• The asphalt (maltene plus asphaltenes) is conveniently modeled as a nano-particle suspension. AGAIN, apparent molecular weight considerations may play a significant role in viscous flow.

• Activation energy models of viscosity work well to explain viscosity-temperature relationships of the nano-particle suspension model considered.

• The Oil’s molecular weight correlates with thermal contraction properties of asphalt, thus, thermal fatigue correlates with thermal contraction, ergo, oils molecular weight correlates with , thermal fatigue.

• Asphaltene content strongly contributes to stiffness of RAP mixtures.

Conclusions

• The “LIQUID” (behavior) of asphalt relates to fatigue-healing.

• Surface crystallization (Surface Freezing) of paraffin wax in complex media involves diffusion controlled crystallization. Bees are observed in both thermally and solvent treated materials.

• Crystals develop at a liquid-vapor interface due to lowering of the liquid-vapor surface free energy state relative to a liquid-solid + solid-vapor state.

• Oils and wax concentration are mutually related in terms of molecular weight, both of which relate to healing.

• Force-flux Coupling makes it difficult to pin-point a single compositional contributor to binder mechanical (rheological) behavior.

• IN SHROT: a chemomechanics model of bitumen behavior based in non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of asphalt microstructure is proposed to predict damage-

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