PURPOSES: Recently, crack, rutting, and stripping problems from the surface of asphalt pavements in National highway are observed and they affect the drivers to feel uncomfortable on the road. Surface treatments are recommended to use in distressed pavements due to costeffective, and improvement of surface performance. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments for distressed asphalt pavements.
METHODS: Surface conditions and friction resistance are evaluated for asphalt pavements treated with micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal mixes in National highway 30 line and 34 line. Visual observation is conducted and surface performance is measured by PES (Performance Evaluation Surveyor) in terms of crack ratio, rutting and IRI(International Roughness Index). BPN(British Pendulum Number) is measured by BPT(British Pendulum Tester) to evaluate the friction resistance in the field.
RESULTS: The surface evaluation results are presented for asphalt pavement treated with micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments in National highway 30 line and 34 line. Based on the visual observation, micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments show better improvements in terms of cracks and stripping. Based on the surface conditions measured by PES vehicle, the surface performance of microsurfacing treatments improves from 53.3% to 54.2% and the surface performance of polymer slurry seal treatments improves from 21.6% to 59.7%. However, the friction resistance of both micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments decreases from 2.5% to 6.7%. Further, it should be verified to produce the surface exposed with aggregates during the construction process of both treatment methods in the field.
CONCLUSIONS : Based on the performance evaluation results in the filed, the surface performance of asphalt pavement treated with micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments improves from 21.6% to 59.7%. While, the friction resistance of asphalt pavement treated with micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments does not improve. It can be concluded that current micro-surfacing and polymer slurry seal treatments would improve surface performance but would not improve the friction resistance.
The ultimate load of beam reinforced with polymer cement slurry(PCS)-coated rebar is a little lower than that of un-coated rebar, and almost the same as that epoxy-coated rebar. In special, that using EVA 50% with is in range of 97.0% of un-coated rebar. In this study, it is also apparent that PCS-coated rebar can replace epoxy-coated rebar to solve the corrosion problem in marine construction field.
In general, polymer cement slurry(PCS) that is made from organic polymer dispersion and cement has good adhesion to steel and cement concrete. Bond strength of PCS-coated rebar is better than that of plain rebar and epoxy-coated rebar. The maximum bond strength of PCS-coated rebar at curing age of 1-day or 3-hour is almost same as that of curing age of 7-day and 28-day. It is possible that PCS-coated rebar with coating thickness of 100㎛ at curing age of 1-day and 3-hour can replace epoxy-coated rebar. It is also apparent that the choice of curing age and coating thickness is very important to improve the bond strength of PCS-coated rebar to cement concrete.