A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test

A B S T R A C T: Although there are many kinds of fracture tests to choose from in evaluating the crack resistance of asphalt mixture, the semi-circular bending (SCB) test has attracted a lot of attention in the academic road engineering community because of its simplicity, stability, and flexibilit...

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Main Authors: Yongjun Meng, Weikang Kong, Chaoliang Gou, Shenwen Deng, Yirong Hu, Jing Chen, Liupeng Fan
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Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2023-03-01
Series:Journal of Road Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2097049823000069
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author Yongjun Meng
Weikang Kong
Chaoliang Gou
Shenwen Deng
Yirong Hu
Jing Chen
Liupeng Fan
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Weikang Kong
Chaoliang Gou
Shenwen Deng
Yirong Hu
Jing Chen
Liupeng Fan
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description A B S T R A C T: Although there are many kinds of fracture tests to choose from in evaluating the crack resistance of asphalt mixture, the semi-circular bending (SCB) test has attracted a lot of attention in the academic road engineering community because of its simplicity, stability, and flexibility in testing and evaluation. The SCB test has become a common method to study the cracking resistance of asphalt mixture in recent years. This paper mainly summarizes the overview of the SCB test, summarizes some research results and common characterization parameters of the SCB test method in monotone test and fatigue test in recent years, and predicts and suggests the research direction of the SCB test in the future. It is found that the research on the monotonic SCB test is more comprehensive, and the research on the SCB fatigue test needs to be further improved in the aspects of loading mode, characterization parameter selection, and so on. Researchers can flexibly adjust the geometric dimensions and the test parameters of semi-cylindrical specimens, and conduct comprehensive analysis combined with the results of numerical simulation. The crack resistance of asphalt mixture can be comprehensively evaluated by fracture energy, fracture toughness, stiffness, flexibility index and other fracture indicators, combined with the crack propagation of the specimen. The analysis of numerical simulation can confirm the test results. In order to standardize the setting of fatigue parameters for future application, it is necessary to standardize the setting of bending performance.
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spelling doaj.art-3738b0699e50423ca00fb520fa0e68fb2024-07-05T04:17:06ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Road Engineering2773-00772023-03-01318797A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending testYongjun Meng0Weikang Kong1Chaoliang Gou2Shenwen Deng3Yirong Hu4Jing Chen5Liupeng Fan6School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Structural Safety of Ministry of Education, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Special Geological Highway Safety Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; National High-performance Computing Center Nanning Branch, Nanning 530004, China; Corresponding author. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaA B S T R A C T: Although there are many kinds of fracture tests to choose from in evaluating the crack resistance of asphalt mixture, the semi-circular bending (SCB) test has attracted a lot of attention in the academic road engineering community because of its simplicity, stability, and flexibility in testing and evaluation. The SCB test has become a common method to study the cracking resistance of asphalt mixture in recent years. This paper mainly summarizes the overview of the SCB test, summarizes some research results and common characterization parameters of the SCB test method in monotone test and fatigue test in recent years, and predicts and suggests the research direction of the SCB test in the future. It is found that the research on the monotonic SCB test is more comprehensive, and the research on the SCB fatigue test needs to be further improved in the aspects of loading mode, characterization parameter selection, and so on. Researchers can flexibly adjust the geometric dimensions and the test parameters of semi-cylindrical specimens, and conduct comprehensive analysis combined with the results of numerical simulation. The crack resistance of asphalt mixture can be comprehensively evaluated by fracture energy, fracture toughness, stiffness, flexibility index and other fracture indicators, combined with the crack propagation of the specimen. The analysis of numerical simulation can confirm the test results. In order to standardize the setting of fatigue parameters for future application, it is necessary to standardize the setting of bending performance.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2097049823000069Asphalt mixtureCrack resistanceFatigue performanceSemi-circular bending test
spellingShingle Yongjun Meng
Weikang Kong
Chaoliang Gou
Shenwen Deng
Yirong Hu
Jing Chen
Liupeng Fan
A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
Journal of Road Engineering
Asphalt mixture
Crack resistance
Fatigue performance
Semi-circular bending test
title A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
title_full A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
title_fullStr A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
title_full_unstemmed A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
title_short A review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi-circular bending test
title_sort review on evaluation of crack resistance of asphalt mixture by semi circular bending test
topic Asphalt mixture
Crack resistance
Fatigue performance
Semi-circular bending test
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2097049823000069
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