ABOUT MODERN POSSIBILITIES OF REUSING ROAD-BUILDING MATERIALS WHEN REPAIRING ROAD PAVEMENTS OF AN IMPROVED LIGHTWEIGHT TYPE

Abstract

At present, when developing design solutions for the repair of non-rigid road pavements of an improved lightweight type, they provide for the device of a base layer using cold recycling technology or from a crushed stone-sand mixture treated with a mineral or complex binder, and two layers of asphalt concrete are laid on top. Based on the results of exploratory studies aimed at wider reuse of road building materials, it is proposed, when repairing a road surface of an improved lightweight type, instead of the top layer of a base made of asphalt concrete, arrange a layer of road material made by the technology of cold recycling ” in the mixer” using an organic binder, and the bottom layer of the base should be made of road material made by the technology of cold recycling “on the road” using a mineral or complex binder. Considering that Ukraine has insufficient experience in preparing mixtures using cold recycling technology using foamed bitumen or bitumen emulsion, the features of their manufacture are given. After milling the asphalt concrete, the bottom layer of the base is reinforced from the road material made using the cold recycling technology “on the road” using a mineral or complex binder. Layers of materials arranged according to the technology of cold recycling, due to processing with a small amount of binders, have insufficient resistance to the action of the wheels of vehicles, and therefore, on top of these layers, it is necessary to arrange a coating layer of materials that provide resistance to dynamic action. The given approach allows to obtain a reduction in the cost of pavement repair due to a decrease in energy consumption for the preparation of asphalt concrete, since the production of materials using cold recycling technologies does not provide for heating the material.