Modified Toughness Used To Evaluate The Effect of
Modified Toughness Used To Evaluate The Effect of
Modified Toughness Used To Evaluate The Effect of
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ABSTRACT
Toughness, as defined in ASTM D5801, is the work used to stretch a specimen
until fracture, and is used to evaluate the ability of polymer modified asphalt (PMA)
to resist deformation. Fracture elongations in PMA are usually longer than 10 cm.
However, it is almost impossible for asphalt concrete, with or without PMA, to en-
dure such large deformation before fracture. It is presumed that an effective elonga-
tion exists for more effective determination of toughness. Principle component analysis
(PCA) and single regression analysis were used in this study to evaluate the correla-
tion between physical tests of PMA, including toughness and performance tests of
Stonic Mastic Asphalt (SMA). Meanwhile, performance tests, including resilient
modulus tests, creep tests and indirect tensile tests, were conducted on SMA samples.
According to the results form Principle Components Analysis (PCA), it was observed
that only a common factor affects the performance tests. Regression analyses were
used to find common factors from physical tests of PMA. Correlation coefficients
between toughness and performance tests were found to be better than other physical
tests. When toughness was calculated with effective elongation (6.5 cm), R 2 was 0.90.
In our opinion, the desirable PMA should provide SMA enough work to resist the
deformation while the deformation is still small. This result was also confirmed by
observation of SEM and Rheological analysis. Modified toughness (calculated with
effective elongation) considered as the common factor, is a simple method to evaluate
the microstructure of PMA. Overall, modified toughness seems promising for use in
evaluation of the effect of PMA on SMA.
Key Words: modified toughness, polymer modified asphalt, stonic mastic asphalt
4.75 28-20 24
10.00
2.36 24-16 20
1.18 21-13 17
0.60 18-12 15
5.00
0.30 15-12 13.5
0.075 10-8 9
NMAS: Nominal Maximum Aggregate Size
10.8
0.00
12.1 15.1 22.8
0 10 20
Elongation (cm) II. MATERIAL
3. Mixture and Specimen Preparation were performed. Tests were carried out at 25°C and
40°C, using a test frequency of 1.0 Hz.
All specimens were compacted using the Troxler
model 4140 Superpave Gyration Compactor (SGC). (ii) Uniaxial Creep Test (static)
Compaction procedure followed NCHRP Report 425.
(Brown, 1999) All loose mixtures went through short Creep test conditions were at an axial stress of
time aging, as specified in ASSHTO PP2 and were 14.5psi for 3600 sec. Loading and unloading times
then compacted using an SGC with 100 gyrations (TP4). were 1800 sec. These test were carried out at 25°C
Calculated optimum binder content, air voids, VMA and 40°C (Sao, 1994).
and VCA of each type of SMA are given in Table 3.
(iii) Indirect Tensile Strength Test
III. TEST PROCEDURE AND DISCUSSION
Tensile strength was used to evaluate the abil-
The search for a simple technique to evaluate ity to resist deformation of asphalt concrete. In this
PMA’s effect on the performance of SMA was con- study, the Marshall Method apparatus was used to
ducted in four phases. Performance tests of SMA apply loads. In order to uniformly distribute the load,
were carried out in the first phase. Then, in the sec- the compressive load was applied through a 1/2" wide
ond phase, Principal Components Factor Analysis metallic loading strip. These tests were performed
(PCA) method was adopted to find common factors using displacement control at a constant vertical dis-
affecting the performance of SMA. PCA only offers placement rate of 2 inch/min. Standard procedures
a relationship between a common factor and perform- of ASTM D4123 (1999) were performed.
ance tests. Since the type of PMA was the only vari-
able in this study, the common factor was therefore (iv) Result of Laboratory Performance Tests
regarded as the PMA property. To find the common
factor from physical test results, single linear regres- Table 4 summarizes laboratory performance test
sion analysis was carried out in the third phase, and results, including MR, tensile strength and static
according to these results, toughness was a better uniaxial creep, of SMA samples. Although the physi-
choice than the other properties. Since toughness may cal test results, as in table 1, indicated a performance
not be a good indicator of the performance of SMA, ranking of CAR>G 1>G 2>U, the laboratory perform-
in phase four a “modified toughness” was proposed ance test results, as in Table 4, illustrate a somewhat
for evaluation of PMA’s effect. In addition, scan- different trend. It can be seen that although the CAR
ning electronic microscopy (SEM) and rheometer type PMA had the best physical property, the SMA
measurements were used to confirm the effectiveness mix A, which used CAR type PMA as binder mate-
of this modified toughness approach. rial, did not perform as well in the performance tests.
The radial types of SBS have generally better
1. Phase I: Laboratory Performance Tests on SMA thermal resistance than linear ones. However, the radial
types of SBS have higher molecular weight, and thus
(i) Resilient Modulus Test need more time and higher temperature to be dispersed
into the base asphalt. Meanwhile, chemical compo-
The Indirect tension test for resilient modulus sition of asphalt, including asphaltenes, aromatics, satu-
was used to measure the stiffness of the SMA sam- rates and resins, also affect compatibility between
ples. Standard procedures of ASTM D4123 (1999) polymer and base asphalt. This implies that mix
1016 Journal of the Chiness Institute of Engineers, Vol. 27, No. 7 (2004)
procedure during PMA production may affect its per- 1, so the PMA type was considered a reliable com-
formance. Consequently, the volume of polymer added mon factor.
into base asphalt can only serve as a reference, in-
y=ax+b
stead of being an absolute index for performance of
PMA. Although more polymers added into the base y: performance test
asphalt may improve the physical properties of PMA, x: common factor
the microstructure may not be improved substantially. a, b: coefficient
Toughness, defined as the work needed to stretch
the binder till fracture, may be used as an indicator (iii) Single Linear Regression Analysis
of the amount and type of polymer added to the base
asphalt (Wang, 2000; Tsai et al., 2000). Fracture Single linear regression analysis and Spearman
elongations of binders in the toughness tests can gen- rank correlation coefficient (r) were conducted using
erally reach 10 cm. However, it is almost impossible SPSS 9.0 in this study, with a confidence level of
for asphalt concrete pavement, with or without poly- 95%. The sample correlation coefficient (r) was
mer-modified binder, to undergo such a large defor- shown as follows. “x” is the indicator for prediction
mation. This suggests that the contribution of PMA of “y”. The criterion used was 0.7. If the value was
binders’ extra work to asphalt concrete in resisting greater than 0.7, it was presumed to indicate positive
deformation occur while the deformation is small. correlation.
Consequently, toughness as defined in ASTM D5801
n
(1999) may over value information from test results.
Σ
i=1
[(xi – x )(yi – y )]
r= n n
2. Phase II: Correlation Analysis of Physical Test
of PMA and Performance Test of SMA
Σ (xi – x ) 2
i=1
Σ (yi – y ) 2
i=1
Principle Components Analysis (PCA), which Regression analysis was applied to analyze
is one kind of factor analysis, was applied to identify physical tests of PMA and performance tests of SMA.
the smallest number of common factors and the most The data of the four PMA listed in Table 2 was paired
important factor was found by this method. The common with the corresponding data of the four SMA in Ta-
factor is considered reliable if over 70% of the total ble 4. The results of single linear regression analysis
variation can be explained by it, or the eigenvalue is between physical tests of PMA and performance tests
greater than 1. SPSS 9.0 was used to do a PCA on of SMA are presented in Table 5. It was observed
the correlation matrix from Table 4 (Sharma, 1996). that no consistent or significant trend due to the per-
formance tests of SMA exists for the softening point
(ii) Result of Factor Analysis or penetration (25°C). On the other hand, viscosity
(60°C) and toughness of PMA did indicate a positive
According to PCA, the type of PMA is the only correlation with performance tests. Nonetheless, it
common factor chosen by the SPSS program. The was also observed that the correlation coefficient was
relationship between the performance test and the smaller than 0.7 between tensile strength of SMA and
common factor can be explained by the equation listed viscosity of PMA. The F-test at a level of signifi-
below, which explains about 80% of the total varia- cance of α =0.05 also showed similar results. Corre-
tion. Meanwhile, the eigenvalue was also greater than lation coefficients of toughness were all greater than
J. D. Lin et al.: Modified Toughness Used to Evaluate the Effect of Polymer Modified Asphalt on SMA 1017
It is easily observed that toughness of CAR was (ii) Results of Modified Toughness
significantly better than other samples. According
to the results of regression analysis, the performance (1) Ultimate strength of toughness and the slope of
tests of SMA using it should be the best. However, tenacity
results of the performance tests listed in Table 4 didn’t The average correlation coefficient (r) calcu-
fully agree with this induction. The toughness of all lated with 8 performance tests and ultimate strength
four PMA binders was calculated with fracture length was 0.672. On the other hand, the average correla-
of PMA, and fracture lengths of these PMA were all tion coefficients calculated with 8 performance tests
over 10.8 cm. However, it was apparent that SMA and the slope was 0.702. These results indicated that
normally could not undergo such large deformations neither ultimate strength of toughness nor the slope
1018 Journal of the Chiness Institute of Engineers, Vol. 27, No. 7 (2004)
1E+6 1.0E+2
G'
1E+5 7.5E+1
G' (dyne/cm2)
tan (delta)
AC20
1E+4 CAR 5.0E+1
G1
G2 tan (delta)
(a) CAR-type (c) G2-type U
tan (delta)
1E+2 0.0E+0
0.0E+0 5.0E+4 1.0E+5 1.5E+5 2.0E+5
Torque (dyne.cm)
40
AC20
(iii) Analysis of Rheological Analysis CAR
G1
G2
Rheological analysis was carried out using a 30 U
Displacement (rad)
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