Mechanical assessment of the induction heating as a method to accelerate the drying process of cold porous asphalt mixtures

Pedro Lastra-González, Irune Indacoechea-Vega, Miguel A. Calzada-Pérez, Daniel Castro-Fresno, Angel Vega-Zamanillo

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Abstract

Cold mix asphalts present clear advantages such as the fact that they do not need to be heated, what results in lower energy consumptions and emissions, or the possibility to be transported long distances and manufactured on an offsite. However, their use is highly limited due to the long curing times that are needed to reach their final strength and the lower mechanical performance achieved comparing to hot mix asphalts. This paper studies induction heating as a process to accelerate the drying time of the emulsion and compares it, in terms of the mixture mechanical performance, with a more conventional method in which the cold sample is heated up in an oven. Different tests, as Cantabro, stiffness and Indirect tensile strength have been carried out. The mechanical results have shown that the induction heating could be a feasible alternative to increase the initial strength and reduce the opening time for this type of layers, although more research is necessary concerning the optimization of the mixture and the improvement of the induction device configuration.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)646-650
Number of pages5
JournalConstruction and Building Materials
Volume208
Early online date11 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 May 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Construction and Building Materials. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Construction and Building Materials, 208, (2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.03.053

© 2019, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

  • Porous asphalt
  • Cold mixture
  • Induction heating
  • Emulsion

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