The application of warm mix asphalt technology in China: a review

DOI

10.2991/imst-16.2016.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WMA, pavement sustainability, asphalt additives, reduced emissions.

Abstract

Increasing emission of greenhouse gases is an environmental issue, and it is a great concern to curb this problem from further harm to the environment. With increasing interest in the use of warm mix asphalt (WMA) in the paving industry, more studies in this field for improvement of WMA properties seem to be necessary. WMA technology, recently developed in Europe, is gaining strong interest in the China. WMA has various benefits such as, reduction of asphalt binder temperature, reduction in energy consumption and less air pollution. It reduces short-term aging, compacting effort and decreases temperature drop during transportation. This paper reviews that the warm-mix asphalt have the potential of improving pavement performance, efficiency and environmental stewardship. Overall, warm-mix asphalt provides substantial sustainability benefits similar to or, in some cases, better than conventional hot-mix asphalt.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiantong Zhang
AU  - Lihua Xu
AU  - Lusheng Lin
AU  - Sumei Liu
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - The application of warm mix asphalt technology in China: a review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Innovative Material Science and Technology (IMST 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 328
EP  - 331
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/imst-16.2016.48
DO  - 10.2991/imst-16.2016.48
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