Review of advanced road materials, structures, equipment, and detection technologies

As a vital and integral component of transportation infrastructure,pavement has a direct and tangible impact on socio-economic sustainability.In recent years,an influx of groundbreaking and state-of-the-art materials,structures,equipment,and detection technologies related to road engineering have continually and progressively emerged,reshaping the landscape of pavement systems.There is a pressing and growing need for a timely summarization of the current research status and a clear identification of future research directions in these advanced and evolving technologies.Therefore,Journal of Road Engineering has undertaken the significant initiative of introducing a comprehensive review paper with the overarching theme of“advanced road materials,structures,equipment,and detection technologies”.This extensive and insightful review meticulously gathers and synthesizes research findings from 39 distinguished scholars,all of whom are affiliated with 19 renowned universities or research institutions specializing in the diverse and multidimensional field of highway engineering.It covers the current state and anticipates future development directions in the four major and interconnected domains of road engineering:advanced road materials,advanced road structures and performance evaluation,advanced road construction equipment and technology,and advanced road detection and assessment technologies.

Creep damage evolution process of asphalt binder based on viscoelastic characteristics

The creep damage evolution of asphalt binder plays a significant role in investigating the formation mechanism of rutting.The rutting is the common distress at high temperatures for asphalt pavements.However,the reliability of existing creep damage parameters is under questioned,and these parameters cannot accurately illustrate the change of intrinsic microstructure for asphalt binder.In this paper,a new test protocol was given access to study the evolution of viscoelastic parameters during creep damage.It was completed by inserting the frequency sweep during creep test.The frequency sweep curve clusters were fitted by the generalized Kelvin-Voigt model for obtaining the change law of model parameters.Based on the change law and sensitivity analysis of model parameters,(E_(2)+E_(3))/2 was proposed as the creep damage variable.According to the curve of(E_(2)+E_(3))/2 versus loading time,two stages during the creep test could be identified:an approximate constant value in phase I and a linear decrease in phase II.Intrinsic differences about creep property of binders could be determined by this new proposed parameter.Above results not only ensure better understanding of the creep damage mechanism of binders,but also lay the theoretical foundation on predicting the anti-rutting performance of binders.