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Investigation of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) characteristics by using high penetration grade asphalt
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Generally, remarkable amount of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) is produced annually by pavement surface cutting: due to early distress on asphalt pavement layer and remodelling construction work on existing aged-asphalt pavement layer. In South Korea, various types of research on proper and optimized RAP material development and field application (including evaluation process) are performed because of increase of existing road maintenance budget and technology. The major material of RAP is recycled aggregate coated with aged asphalt binder. The advantages of application of RAP on asphalt pavement are recyclable material proportion can be increased due to re-using of existing aggregate and eco-friendly characteristics. However, more amount of specific additives (and/or agent) needs to be implemented during production with increase amount (and/or proportion) of RAP on virgin asphalt material inevitably. This action is highly needed because of recovery of penetration grade and absolute viscosity of final production. The required amount of additives tends to be vary based on different aging level of RAP, amount of RAP and types of virgin asphalt binder. But it is well known that required amount of additives tends to be increased with increase of RAP proportion compared to virgin asphalt mixture. Moreover, it also should be known that mere increase of additives on RAP asphalt can provide negative effect on its quality and mechanical performance. In this study, high penetration grade asphalt binder: contains between 200 and 300 level of penetration grade, was used for producing RAP asphalt mixture with small amount of required additive application. After the sample preparation, various characteristics of RAP asphalt were analysed with extensive experimental work.
