“…The fracture resistance of asphalt materials significantly influences the service life of asphalt pavements and consequently the maintenance and management of the pavement network. Probably, the most developed and successful approach for modeling damage evolution in bituminous materials is the continuum damage mechanics (CDM) approach, as many researchers (Kim and Little 1990, Park et al 1996, Lee et al 2000, 2003, Chehab et al 2002, 2003, Daniel and Kim 2002, Gibson et al 2003, Tashman et al 2004, Chehab and Kim 2005, Masad et al 2005, Darabi et al 2011) have studied. More specifically, researchers (Chehab et al 2002, 2003, Darabi et al 2011) took into account the major components of asphalt mixture behavior (elastic, viscoelastic, plastic, and viscoplastic) based on a work potential theory, the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle, time-temperature superposition with growing damage and a strain-hardening model for viscoplastic behavior to demonstrate good agreement between model predictions and asphalt mixture performance testing results.…”