Polymer Modified Asphalt for Sustainable Pavements
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 37
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Interests: pavement maintenance; asphalt concrete; self-healing; multi-cavity capsules
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Interests: Road material behavior and engineering resilience; smart road materials and pavements; roadway resource evaluation; environment & traffic monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Asphalt pavements are highly preferred in modern road construction due to their numerous advantages. However, the road performance of asphalt pavements is likely to deteriorate rapidly due to traffic load and environmental factors. The increases in traffic volume and vehicle load have put forward higher requirements for pavement materials. Modifying asphalt with polymer materials such as styrene-butadiene-styrene, styrene-butadiene rubber, polyethylene, crumb rubber, and polyurethane, can significantly improve its initial performance and stability during use. Consequently, recent years have witnessed an increasing use of polymer-modified asphalt binders in practical pavement engineering, which successfully improve the road performance and durability of the pavements. Polymer-modified asphalts are also widely used in pavement maintenance. Polymer modifiers are even used during the recycling of polymer-modified asphalt pavement at the end of its life cycle to supplement or to regenerate the degraded polymer modifiers.
Polymer-modified asphalt has great application potential in the construction of sustainable pavements. Numerous research studies are being conducted to further optimize different aspects of polymer-modified asphalt. This Special Issue welcomes articles on polymer-modified asphalt, covering a broad range of topics such as the development of new polymer materials, the performance evaluation of polymer-modified asphalt and asphalt mixtures, and the optimization of the manufacture and properties of polymer-modified asphalt.
Prof. Dr. Quantao Liu
Prof. Dr. Zhuangzhuang Liu
Prof. Dr. Chao Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- asphalt pavement
- sustainable pavement
- polymer materials
- cement additive
- styrene-butadiene-styrene
- styrene-butadiene rubber
- polyethylene
- crumb rubber
- polyurethane
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