Advances in Asphalt Materials (3rd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The need to maximise the durability and safety of road pavements is widely recognized. This can be achieved via improving asphalt properties and developing new types of asphalt for pavement construction. Furthermore, special attention should be paid to the environmental sustainability of asphalt pavement. Asphalt can be modified via the incorporation of a range of materials, such as polymers, rubber wax, F-T synthetic wax, and natural asphalt, or by the addition of various chemical additives, especially low-viscosity ones. The effectiveness of these measures is being assessed with increasingly advanced rheological tests of the binder, which are capable of predicting its behaviour over the pavement’s service life. Furthermore, it is critical that we continue to develop and constantly improve new types of bituminous mixtures produced with binders modified with low-viscosity additives or zeolite-foamed asphalt at lower mixing and paving temperatures (e.g., half-warm mix asphalt). From a sustainability perspective, half-warm mix asphalt technologies that rely on water-foamed asphalt and enable mixture production at a temperature of approximately 100 °C are particularly relevant. In addition to a long service life, modern asphalt pavements are required to have an adequate roughness level to ensure traffic safety—asphalt materials such as porous asphalt or special types of SMA mixtures meet this criterion. Moreover, the progressive enhancement of asphalt’s material properties should be accompanied by advances in diagnostic methods that verify the effectiveness of the material solutions applied. We look forward to your contributions on the above topics.

Prof. Dr. Marek Iwański
Prof. Dr. Karol J. Kowalski
Guest Editors

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