Multiple Optimization of Cold Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixture

Abstract

Many asphalt pavements fail structurally after having performed well for some years. In China, when low volume of traffic highway is recycled, the asphalt surface course and the base course stabilized by inorganic stabilizers are sometimes recycled and mixed together to form a new base. Portland cement, lime-fly ash, lime or Portland cement-fly ash is added to improve the strength of the new base, but they are not used at the same time, so it is difficult for a road engineer to select an effective and economical stabilizer. To evaluate the effect and economical efficiency of different stabilizers comprehensively, this paper used Portland cement, lime-fly ash, lime and Portland cement-fly ash to form four kinds of cold recycled mixtures and every kind of cold recycled mixture has 3 mix proportions. The unconfined compression strength, flexural tensile strength, splitting strength, compression resilient modulus, shrinkage performance, water stability performance, fatigue failure and engineering cost of 12 cold recycled mixtures were compared. Finally, the Portland cement-fly ash stabilized mixture with proportion of 5:15:80 was recommended.