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原文传递 Adhesion Testing Procedure for Hot-Poured Crack Sealants.

题名：	Adhesion Testing Procedure for Hot-Poured Crack Sealants.
作者：	I. Al-Qadi; E. H. Fini; H. D. Figueroa; J. Masson; K. K. McGhee;
关键词：	hot-poured crack sealants,adhesion,pavement maintenance,hot mix paving mixtures,crack sealing,crack filling,interfacial fracture energy(ife),direct tensile test(dtt);testing, procedures, pavement service life, bond strength, bituminous sealant rheology, m
摘要：	Crack sealing is a common pavement maintenance treatment because it extends pavement service life significantly. However, crack sealant often fails prematurely due to a loss of adhesion. Because current test methods are mostly empirical and only provide a qualitative measure of bond strength, they cannot predict sealant adhesive failure accurately. Hence, there is an urgent need for test methods based on bituminous sealant rheology that can better predict sealant field performance. This study introduces three laboratory tests aimed to assess the bond property of hot-poured crack sealant to pavement crack walls. The three tests are designed to serve the respective needs of producers, engineers, and researchers. The first test implements the principle of surface energy to measure the thermodynamic work of adhesion, which is the energy spent in separating the two materials at the interface. The work of adhesion is reported as a measure of material compatibility at an interface. The second test is a direct adhesion test, a mechanical test which is designed to closely resemble both the installation process and the crack expansion due to thermal loading. This test uses the Direct Tensile Test (DTT) machine. The principle of the test is to apply a tensile force to detach the sealant from its aggregate counterpart. The maximum load, Pmax, and the energy to separation, E, are calculated and reported to indicate interface bonding. The third test implements the principles of fracture mechanics in a pressurized circular blister test. The apparatus is specifically designed to conduct the test for bituminous crack sealant, asphalt binder, or other bitumen-based materials. In this test, a fluid is injected at a constant rate at the interface between the substrate (aggregate or a standard material) and the adhesive (crack sealant) to create a blister. The fluid pressure and blister height are measured as functions of time; the data is used to calculate Interfacial Fracture Energy (IFE), which is a fundamental property that can be used to predict adhesion. The stable interface debonding process makes this test attractive. This test may also provide a means to quantify other factors, such as the moisture susceptibility of a bond. In addition, the elastic modulus of the sealant and its residual stresses can be determined analytically. While the direct adhesion test is proposed as part of a newly developed performance-based guideline for the selection of hot-poured crack sealant, the blister test can be used to estimate the optimum annealing time and installation temperature. / Title Note: Technical rept. / Supplementary Notes: Sponsored by Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville. and Federal Highway Administration, Richmond, VA. Virginia Div. / Availability Note: Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A07 / NTIS In-house Control Codes: dotfha/iuu;12091,1101 &C / Project Number: VTRC-67775 / Monitor Agency Acronym: ICT / Monitor Agency Number: 08-026 / Corporate Author Code: 034597013 / Classifivation: Unclassified report
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