Evaluation of rheological master curve parameters for the practical specification grading of Canadian asphalt binders
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Abstract
The designing of roads is significantly influenced by the rheological properties of asphalt binders. Efforts have been made to develop a precise and accurate test method for implementing rheological parameters for asphalt performance rankings. Many municipalities in Ontario utilize the extended bending beam rheometer (EBBR) test to evaluate low-temperature performance and the double-edge-notched tension (DENT) test to determine ductile failure of asphalt binders. Although both these methods improve binder evaluation, they require an excessive amount of extracted and recovered binders, resulting in significant material and time consumption, as well as extended labour. Moreover, the EBBR test requires three days of conditioning time. Therefore, current research is focused on developing simplified methods that use less material and less time while ensuring precision and accuracy. One potential alternative to the EBBR and DENT test protocols is the dynamic shear rheometer (DSR), which is currently used by Superpave™ to determine the high and intermediate temperature properties of binders. The DSR uses the time-temperature superposition principle to generate complex modulus and phase angle master curves across various temperatures and frequencies. The objective of this study is to simplify tests, correlating different DSR frequency sweep and master curve parameters such as limiting phase angle temperatures, intermediate temperature performance grades, crossover frequencies, crossover moduli, glassy moduli, and rheological indices with EBBR and DENT test data. In this study, a total of 41 asphalt binders from Canada were tested. A secondary objective of this research is to study the effect of cooling rate on DSR parameters. Further, a chemical analysis of binders from different regions is also summarized. The results indicated that the DSR test is an effective replacement for EBBR and DENT tests as it requires less sample and a reduced time to acquire results. However, parameters such as the grade loss from the EBBR analysis should be studied further to determine if it can be replaced with a DSR parameter with equivalent or better precision, accuracy, and sensitivity to performance. It was also observed that a slower cooling rate in the DSR test showed a better correlation to several of the EBBR and DENT parameters.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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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