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2.Materials
2.1.The different binders used for the study are presented hereafter. All polymer-modified bitumens were prepared at a laboratory scale. Polymer dispersion and/or cross linking were carried out at high temperature (180°C) under moderate shear for four hours.
The Superpave upper grades of the binders were also determined according to AASHTO MP1-98 procedure. All materials and PG upper gradation are presented in table 1.
2.2.Dynamic Shear Rheometer
2.2.1.Static creep and oscillatory mode
As already described, ZSV can be determined directly from long-term creep tests .But such tests are time consuming and it is often very difficult to determine when steady-state flow is obtained.
It has been shown elsewhere (4) that ZSV can de extrapolated by a dynamic test as a limiting value at low frequency.
2.2.2.Repeated creep and recovery
The protocol of the repeated creep and recovery test consists in applying a repeated creep load of 300 Pa for one second followed by nine seconds recovery period (rest period) for 100 cycles.
The test is performed at high temperature with 25 mm parallel plates and 1 mm gap. In order to compare the different binders, the repeated creep test was performed at four different temperatures: the Superpave high temperature performance grading temperature (TH), TH – 6°C,TH – 12°C, TH – 18°C.
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Repeated creep and recovery
Following Bahia’s procedure (100 cycles), all nine binders were tested. This procedure assumes that the recovery time, 9 times the creep time, is enough to have total recovery of the elastic
delayed strain. A way to check this hypothesis is to compare the first cycle and the hundredth cycle. For unmodified binders all cycles are superposed at each temperature. For modified binders
this is not the case.
Figure 1 compares the first and last cycle for a crosslinked SB modified bitumen: the maximum strain is constant during the test but the unrecoverable strain decreases with time. The difference
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increases with the polymer content. This clearly shows that the elastic recovery is not complete and so the recovery time is not sufficient to recover all of the delayed elasticity. For crosslinked binders, a longer relaxation time is needed to have total recovery of the delayed elastic effects.
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