Enhancing Sustainable Surface Treatments: A Review of Sasobit® Redux and Nanomaterial for Chip and Cape Seals in Cold Regions
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Abstract
Chip and cape seals are commonly used as surface treatment due to their cost-effectiveness as a pavement maintenance strategy.However, freeze-thaw cycles in cold regions cause binders in surface treatment to expand and contract, resulting in deteriorating surface treatments.These surface treatments should prevent water ingress into the pavement and resist damage from freeze-thaw cycles.However, failures such as bleeding, aggregate stripping, brittleness caused by the stiffening effect in bituminous binders and loss in microtexture due to aggregate embedment are common with seals constructed during freezing periods.Conventional materials such as lime and cement used as adhesion promoters in slurries for cape seals have been reported to propagate cracks within the seal.These cracks become fault lines for pavement deterioration in winter; hence, there is a need to seek alternative innovative materials for surface treatments.This review investigates the potential of incorporating innovative Sasobit® REDUX and nanomaterial as alternatives to conventional materials in constructing chip and cape seals in cold weather.Sasobit® REDUX is widely used as an additive in warm mix asphalt to extend the paving window.Its lower congealing point (72-83ºC), higher penetration (16-30 dmm), and lower crystallisation temperature (60ºC) make this additive effective in resistance against low-temperature cracking in the pavement.It provides better coating over aggregates and ensures better compaction at lower temperatures; however, its benefits in surface treatment have been underexplored.On the other hand, using nanomaterial significantly improves the binder-aggregate adhesion and reduces temperature susceptibility and the likelihood of cracking.This paper analyses the selection procedure for binder, aggregate, and modifiers to ensure a more durable seal in cold regions.The findings indicated that 1% -1.4% dosage of Sasobit® REDUX by weight of bitumen enhances the performance of bitumen at low temperatures while nanomaterial such as anionic nanosilane-modified bitumen emulsion successfully replaced the use of lime and cement in slurry for Cape seal.Both Sasobit® REDUX and nanomaterial offer cost-effective approaches to enhance surface treatments in cold weather; therefore, future studies should explore the large-scale application of these materials in the field.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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