Abstract
The multiple stress creep and recovery (MSCR) test has been widely accepted as a more practical method for accessing the rutting performance of asphalt binders than the conventional Superpave rutting factor test. Nevertheless, there still exists a major concern that 9-s recovery time in each cycle may not guarantee a sufficient recovery of the recoverable viscoelastic strain, especially for modified asphalts, and this could result in a potential inaccuracy in characterizing rutting resistance of binders. To effectively separate the recoverable nonlinear viscoelastic (NLVE) and nonrecoverable responses in the MSCR test, this paper presents a new approach that adopts an additional one-cycle low-stress creep and recovery (LSCR) test and the Schapery’s NLVE model in analyzing the MSCR test data. The LSCR test, covering the entire duration of the MSCR test (200 s), can well determine the linear viscoelastic (LVE) recoverable properties that the Schapery’s model requires for NLVE analysis. The results show that with the recoverable and nonrecoverable responses accurately isolated, the proposed approach rigorously redefines the indicators of the percent recovery R and nonrecoverable creep compliance Jnr in the MSCR test, and therefore effectively eliminates the inaccuracy of the original indicators caused by incomplete recovery of the recoverable strain component in each cycle. Also, the developed method exactly characterizes stress dependence and permanent deformation resistance of asphalt binder, thus offering an effective and accurate approach for high-temperature performance evaluation of asphalt binders.
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