In this paper, a comprehensive state-of-the-art study regarding the mechanism and enhancement of self-repair in asphalt pavement is presented. The review starts with defining the self-repair phenomenon as a natural property in asphalt materials that is associated with other properties such as the viscoelastic response. The difference between self-repair and the viscoelastic response is also presented. In addition, the factors influencing the self-repair mechanism (positively and negatively) are investigated. However, some of these factors remain vague and need to be investigated further. Furthermore, two enhancing self-repair processes, which are extrinsic technologies such as induction heating and encapsulated rejuvenators, are presented as alternative preventive maintenance applied to asphalt pavement. In conclusion, the self-repair could be achieved in an economic way in countries with hot climates, such as Iraq where temperature plays a significant positive role in enhancing the asphalt repair if enough rest period is provided, without the need to other extrinsic technologies to be applied.
One important natural property of asphalt materials is the ability to self-repair damages. This property could extend service life of asphalt roads and help deter maintenance to some accountable time. This property is basically working on rejuvenating the aged bitumen when cracks appear. With this purpose, two types of asphalt mixtures were developed. Aged mixture and unaged mixture for the purpose of comparison between the results. The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of higher temperature in Iraq on enhancing the asphalt self-repair. Different rest periods were applied to give time to the bitumen to move and redistribute again while reversing the ageing effect. The major agent in that is the viscosity of asphalt, which is reduced by high temperature and allow the bitumen to move again and increase the wettability of asphalt. The ageing of samples was done in the laboratory according to specifications and the temperature was provided in field as the study focus on summer temperature of Iraq. It was found that applying only temperature on aged asphalt reduced the viscosity and increased the flow of bitumen, which is a highly promising finding at this stage and further investigations are recommended in the end of this study.
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