Abstract
To overcome the shortcomings of traditional wet styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) modification technology, such as its high energy consumption and thermal decomposition, a warm mix and fast-melting SBS modifier was developed. Based on the theory of rheology, a dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) was applied to investigate the viscoelastic properties of the warm mix and fast-melting SBS-modified asphalt using a frequency scanning test. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to reveal the modification mechanism of the SBS-modified asphalt. An investigation of the thermal stability of the asphalt binder was conducted using a thermogravimetric test (TG). The results exhibited that the SBS-modified asphalt had good viscoelastic properties, as well as thermal stability. The "bee structure" of the SBS-modified asphalt was finer and more stable. In addition, the adhesion and the Derjaguin-Muller-Toporov (DMT) modulus of the SBS-modified asphalt at a warm mixing speed was higher than that of regular SBS-modified asphalt.
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