A Design Method on Durable Asphalt Pavement of Flexible Base on Anti-Rutting Performance and Its Application

• Published in: Materials Vol. 16; no. 22; p. 7122
• Main Authors: Li, Limin, Guo, Enping, Lin, Yuliang, He, Zhaoyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2023
• Subjects: Aggregates; Asphalt mixes; Asphalt pavements; Creep tests; Damage; design method; Design techniques; Durability; durable asphalt pavement; Dynamic loads; Fatigue; Fatigue failure; Fatigue life; Fatigue testing machines; Fatigue tests; flexible base; Flexible pavements; Fractal geometry; Fractals; High temperature; Materials; Mathematical analysis; Methods; Particle size; Roads & highways; rutting and fatigue performance; Viscoelasticity; Void ratio; China
• ISSN: 1996-1944; 1996-1944
• DOI: 10.3390/ma16227122

To solve the durability of flexible base asphalt pavement, especially its anti-rutting problem, a design method on durable asphalt pavement of flexible base on anti-rutting performance was put forward in the paper, based on many experiments and calculations. Firstly, a method that asphalt could be selected according to penetration and the anti-rutting factor of its base asphalt was found, which solved the problem of the asphalt selection of the flexible base asphalt mixture design. Meanwhile, a method of skeleton-density structure gradation design was proposed based on the fractal void ratio of coarse aggregate, fractal volume of fine aggregate in coarse aggregate, penetration, fractal dimension of gradation particle size, and rutting tests, which effectively solved in advance the rutting and fatigue performance of flexible base asphalt mixtures. Then, on the basis of the fatigue damage, a calculation method of fatigue life was suggested, which solved the problem that the fatigue damage of asphalt mixtures rarely considered the combined effects of creep damage and fatigue damage. In addition, a calculation method of rutting was formulated based on vehicle dynamic load and ANSYS 16.0 software. Lastly, the feasibility of the design method on durable asphalt pavement of flexible base on anti-rutting performance was verified combining with the real engineering of a supporting project and several numerical calculations and tests.