Fatigue cracking is a critical pavement distress caused by extreme environmental conditions and heavy repeated cyclic loading. Performance-based design methods that use mechanistic models focus on material performance properties, creating an opportunity to use engineered and recycled materials such as reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP). The primary goal of this study was to use the simplified viscoelastic continuum damage (S-VECD) model to assess the fatigue behavior of North Dakota’s asphalt mixtures. Eight mixtures typically used in North Dakota were sampled and underwent | E*| testing to determine their linear viscoelastic (LVE) properties. The S-VECD tests were conducted on the same mixtures to determine their damage characteristics. The outputs from the two tests were exported to the FlexMATTM software to obtain their damage characteristic curves, DR failure criterion parameters, and Sapp-index values. CT-index values for the same mixtures were obtained from the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT). The results revealed that the mixture used for HWY 52, which does not contain RAP, was least susceptible to fatigue cracking. The mixture used for HWY 6, which contains the highest RAP content (25%), had the lowest fatigue resistance, revealing RAP’s stiffening effect on asphalt mixtures. The mixture used for HWY 1, which used the performance grade (PG) 58S-34 binder, had the second-highest fatigue-cracking resistance despite containing 15% RAP, indicating that binder grade affects an asphalt mixture’s fatigue behavior. A relatively low correlation was observed between the CT-index and Sapp-index.


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    Titel :

    Evaluating the Fatigue-Cracking Resistance of North Dakota’s Asphalt Mixtures


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Oteki, Duncan (Autor:in) / Yeneneh, Andebut (Autor:in) / Gedafa, Daba S. (Autor:in) / Suleiman, Nabil (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-03-03




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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