FORTAFIED SMART

Specialty Mix Asphalt Reinforced Technology Sdn. Bhd.

The SMART Way Forward

Increases Strength, Toughness, Durability, Resistance and Life Span

About SMART Specialty Mix Asphalt Reinforced Technology Sdn. Bhd. is focused on providing Cost-Effective, Durable and Technically Superior products and solutions to the infrastructure industry.

The secret to reinforcing almost any construction material is historically simple: add fibers and modified binders throughout the material to add strength, toughness and durability. FORTA Corporation (exclusive manufacturers of these specialist fibers) capitalises on this Three-Dimensional certainty by providing strong and chemically inert synthetic fibers and materials (FORTA-FI®) that mix quickly and distribute uniformly in asphalt mixtures. Once distributed, FORTA-FI fibers act as a reinforcement in both conventional and modified asphalt mixtures offering improvements to stability-related problems often occurring in unreinforced asphalt pavements.

EXCLUSIVE 3 YEAR WARRANTY

Fortified SMART Roads Stronger, Longer-Lasting Performance

• Cost-Effective

• Extended Life

• 3D Reinforcement

• Material Properties

• Realise immediate cost savings due to less asphalt being required to meet your design objectives or savings down the road by extending the life of the asphalt.

superior performance with less asphalt thickness

reduces rutting and cracking

provides 3D (Isotropic) reinforcement throughout the treated layers

improves tensile strength, resilient modulus, Marshall Stability and Flow and others

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The high fiber count in the FORTAfied asphalt mixture resulted in much better resistance to crack initiation as seen by additional tests performed at Arizona State University and Universiti Putra Malaysia that further demonstrated: • Higher crack propagation resistance • Higher fatigue life • Higher strength (150%) • Higher tensile strain at failure • Higher fracture energy at failure • Lower thermal cracking, even at -10°C

FORTA-FI Fibers Extensively Tested

CONCRETE OR ASPHALT?

LOAD

RIGID PAVEMENT

SUBGRADE

LOAD

SUBGRADE

FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT

BASE

Design life 30+ years

Cost 3x more than Flexible Pavement

Low maintenance cost/slow construction

High flexural strength

Strength of pavement not dependent on subgrade

Low ability to expand and contract

High ability to bridge imperfections on subgrade

Design life 5 – 10 years

Cost 1/3 of Rigid Pavement

High maintenance cost/fast construction

Low flexural strength

Strength of pavement dependent on subgrade

High ability to expand and contract

Low ability to bridge imperfections on subgrade

Design life 30+ years

Cost 1/3 of Rigid Pavement

Low maintenance cost / Fast construction

High flexural strength

Strength of pavement not dependent on subgrade

High ability to expand and contract

High ability to bridge imperfections on subgrade

LOAD

SUBGRADE

SEMI RIGID PAVEMENT

BASE

=SEMI RIGID FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT

LOAD

SUBGRADE

FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT

BASE +

MODIFIED

BINDERS

FORTA-FI

FIBERS

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Proven Effective… Demonstrated during a repair job!

Boeing – Mesa, AZ Flightline infield placed in 2008

2010, broken pipe caused a sink 1 m W x 2.5 m L x 5 cm D

Only (1) 25 cm crack found

Asphalt saw-cut & removed in 2 pieces, 5 cm thick

One center anchor on 255 kg slab

Removed in one piece on a 50˚C day!

Proven Effective… Demonstrated during a repair job!

Superior Crack Control Performance Evaluation

• Cracking:

• Fatigue-repetitive loading (traffic, thermal)

• Reflective-joint, crack or under layer defect

• Thermal-expansion/contraction due to

temperature (gradients are never uniform)

• C* Integral Crack Propagation test, similar to

Superpave Indirect Tensile Test (IDT)

0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7

Displacement, in (mm)

0

2000

1500

500

2500

1000

(17.5)

(14)

(10.5)

(7)

(3.5)

(2.54) (7.62) (12.7) (17.78)

Science Cracking Evaluation – Peak Strength

Peak Strength – FORTA-FI

Peak Strength – Control Mix

25%

0

2000

1500

500

2500

1000

0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7

(2.54) (7.62) (12.7) (17.78) Displacement, in (mm)

(17.5)

(14)

(10.5)

(7)

(3.5)

Science Cracking Evaluation - Energy

Energy

100%

Science Cracking Evaluation – Peak Strength

As a truck stops, the aramid fibers spread the force throughout the treated layer reducing stress and fatigue where the tires meet the road.

As a truck stops, the force drives down into the asphalt and supporting layers causing stress and fatigue where the tires meet the road.

Normal Asphalt

Fortified SMART Comparison FORTAfied Asphalt

Proven Effective… Pie Crust Roadway - (Swamp Road)

Project reviewed in July, 2011 (20 months)

Control lane shows significant rutting and cracking

FORTA-FI lane has no cracking, no rutting!

Cracks actually stop at FORTA-FI lane!

FORTA-FI

Lane

CONTROL

Lane

Transverse

crack line

visible on

control lane

Crack line stops upon

reaching the FORTA-FI

reinforced lane!!!

10 Years Track Record Western Australia

Project History

• Approach DBKL (Kuala Lumpur City Hall) in

2013 to present FORTA-FI.

• DBKL wanted a solution to reduce their cost of

road maintenance.

• Trial lay in Jalan Kuching, one of the oldest and

busiest highway in the capital.

MALAYSIA

27th April 2013 – Jalan Kuching

Slow and Medium Lanes (trial lay) in front of the BHP Petrol

Station

Surface Preparation – Mill Grind

Surface Preparation – Power Sweep

FORTA-FI fibers evenly spread QA/QC

Final Steps

High volume of traffic

Joint between ACW 20 fiber mix (left) and SMA 14 stone mastic asphalt

(right)

One year inspection at site with President and VP

of FORTA Corporation

FORTA-FI SMART Road Surface after 32 Months

IKRAM Report summary

Zero Cracks Zero Rutting Excellent Skid

Resistance

Tests conducted on 2nd November 2015

31 months after initial trial lay

Benefits

Improved Safety

• No potholes

• No Rutting

• Better riding quality

• Less Accidents

Improved Performance

• No Cracks

• Excellent Skid Resistance

• Adequate Texture Depth

Lower life cycle cost

• No Maintenance

• Enhanced Durability

• Exclusive 3 year warranty

FORTAFIED

We offer the following:-

(i) FORTAFied SMART Standard Mix – FF SMART SM

(ii) FORTAFied SMART Acid Resistant – FF SMART AR

(iii) FORTAFied SMART Diesel Resistant – FF SMART DR

(iv) FORTAFied SMART Stone Mastic Asphalt – FF SMART SMA

(v) FORTAFied SMART Grip Enhanced – FF SMART GE (15 to 20% )

% AGGREGATE USED

20.0 mm - 38 %

10.0 mm - 10 %

Q/Dust - 50 %

Cement - 2 %

Bitumen Content = 5.40 + 0.2 %

ASPHALTIC CONCRETE WEARING 20

( JKR/SPJ/1993 )

STONE MASTIC ASPHALT ( SMA 14 )

% AGGREGATE USED

14 mm - 70 %

Q/Dust - 23 %

Filler - 3 %

Cement - 4 %

Bitumen Content = 6.00 + 0.2 %

ASPHALTIC CONCRETE WEARING COURSE 20 - SCHD 1

( Series 900 )

% AGGREGATE USED

20.0 mm - 40 %

10.0 mm - 18 %

Quarry Dust - 40 %

Cement - 2 %

Bitumen Content = 5.40 + 0.3 %

MARSHALL SPECIFICATION ACW 20 SMART INCREASE REMARK

AASHTO T 245 JKR/SPJ/1988 JKR Mix Special Mix BY % THE ADVANTAGES

Not Less Than Higher Load

500 Kg / mm Strength

% Voids filled

with Bitumen

Better Flow

Resistence

Not Less Than Better Strength And

250 Kg / mm Defomation Resistence

Resilent Modulus Better Rut And

Wheel Tracking Test Crack Resistence

Indirect Tensile Higher Rut And

Modulus (Mpa) Crack Resistence

ACW 20 Vs FF SMART SM

Pass

Pass

,+32.851673891> 2500

Higher Density

660.7

2 - 7 mm 5.6 mm 2.1 mm ,+ 62.5

78.0 -75 - 85 %

Flow ( mm ) 3.1 2.8 -

Stiffness ( kg/mm ) 429.0

Density ( Mg/m3 ) 2.331 2.338

Stability ( kg ) 1330

% Voids in mix 3.8

1850

- + 0.7

3 - 5 %

+ 35.6

> 2 mm

3.60

77.5

-

+ 28.1

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