Each year around 200 million tons of demolition wastes are produced from aging U.S. infrastructures. Of that amount, 100 million tons are portland cement concrete debris. Disposal of these wastes in landfills has been a traditional solution, but environmental regulations, costs, and a lack of landfill areas have hindered safe disposal. These problems have led to a search for alternate ways of reusing demolition wastes by recycling. Recycling the concrete waste not only reduces the waste disposal problem but also reduces the quarrying of virgin aggregate. The incorporation of recycled concrete as a hot-mix asphalt (HMA) aggregate can be a viable option in terms of costs and environmental considerations. This use of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) as an HMA aggregate can be beneficial for constructing low-volume roads. RCA differs from virgin aggregates in that there is cement paste on the surface of the recycled concrete. In this study, 5% RCA was evaluated as an HMA aggregate. Mix designs were conducted, and the effect of RCA on the volumetrics of HMA was evaluated. The mix design results indicated that RCA is absorptive, and that as the percentage of recycled concrete increased in the mix, the optimum asphalt content increased linearly. The statistical regression model showed that RCA had significant effects on the volumetrics of the mix.


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    Titel :

    Evaluation of Effects of Recycled Concrete Aggregate on Volumetrics of Hot-Mix Asphalt


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record


    Beteiligte:
    Bhusal, Sushanta (Autor:in) / Li, Xiaojun (Autor:in) / Wen, Haifang (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-01-01




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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