Improving The Performance of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures With Polymer Asphalt in Submerged Floods

Abstract

The road conditions which is always submerged can reduce the performance of the asphalt pavement. This research was conducted to obtain the characteristics of polymer asphalt concrete against flooding. Marshall testing was carried out on conventional and polymer asphalt concrete with optimum asphalt content treated with water immersion in variations of 0 days, 0.5 days, 1 day, 2 days, and 4 days. The results show polymer asphalt can improve the durability of asphalt concrete which is submerged in floodwater. This is indicated by the difference in the stability value of 113% in the variation of immersion for 4 days.

Investigation to enhanced Physical and Mechanical Properties of Road Pavement in Asphalt Incorporating Low-Density Waste Plastic Bags

“…(Amri et al, 2023) reported that their FLG could increase the Marshal stability value of asphalt are about 5.1% to 17.6% when 3 to 9% FLG are added at concentrations of 10 to 30 mg/ml. This effect was also observed by (Yanuar et al, 2021). In fact, the stability value of the polymer asphalt mixture has a higher stability value than the stability of conventional asphalt mixture and the difference in the stability value was about 113% higher.…”

“…The need for high-quality, and sustainable road infrastructure is partly due to the new load configurations of heavy goods vehicles, and partly to the need to improve the durability of road pavements (Junod & Dumont, 2004). Road damage is attributed to excessive loads, natural disasters, and construction quality, wherein the composition and design of construction material play a big role (Yanuar et al, 2021). Asphalt in its traditional configuration no longer provides satisfactory resistance to rutting under theses constraints (Allah et al, 2015;Cuisinier et al, 2007).…”

“…According to previous research work, the mixtures modified with recycled-plastic additives (Russo et al, 2022;Pugin et al, 2022), the addition of fiber from the fly ash of thermal power plants (Bieliatynskyi et al, 2022), the glass particle, showed higher stiffness and tenacity and as expected though, with specified physical, mechanical and operational properties in line with the literature. And asphalt with an added polymer material which is elastomeric can increase the durability of road pavements and the stability of the asphalt concrete mixture (Yanuar et al, 2021;Hadidane et al, 2015). (Endimerad & Zadjaoui, 2015) studied the use of Road Product (PR) industry named polymer plastomere in 95 % (PLAST) in a mixture bituminous concrete to high module.…”