Effect of asphalt overlay on fatigue characteristics and fatigue life of in-service asphalt pavement mixtures

IF 8 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Construction and Building Materials Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.143900

Chenyang Xue , Chunhui Jiang , Ruikang Yang , Xiang Li , Huailei Cheng , Jianlong Ye , Lulu Yang , Lijun Sun , Changxuan He

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Abstract

Asphalt overlay technology has emerged as a key approach for repairing pavement distresses. Asphalt overlay is believed beneficial to enhance asphalt pavement’s fatigue resistance, as overlay increases the overall thickness of pavement and decreases the damaging effects of traffic loadings. However, limited research has compared the fatigue behaviors of asphalt mixtures cored from asphalt pavements with and without asphalt overlay, and the effect of asphalt overlay on asphalt mixture’s fatigue performance has yet been clearly determined. To address this gap, this paper aimed to investigate the effect of asphalt overlay on the fatigue characteristics of the in-service asphalt pavement. Firstly, asphalt mixture samples were cored from in-service asphalt pavements with and without asphalt overlay, and those samples were performed with indirect tensile fatigue tests to test their fatigue responses. Secondly, effects of asphalt overlay on fatigue-related indicators (i.e., stiffness modulus, phase angle, dissipated energy) of asphalt mixtures were analyzed. Finally, fatigue life models of asphalt mixtures from in-service asphalt pavements with and without asphalt overlay were developed, to assess the impacts of asphalt overlay on pavement fatigue resistance. The results demonstrate that asphalt overlay decreases the variation rate of asphalt pavement’s fatigue-related indicators with loading cycles, thus lowering fatigue damage accumulation of asphalt pavement. Moreover, the fatigue life model based on initial dissipated energy is suitable for various loading conditions and asphalt pavements with and without asphalt overlay. The findings of this research are expected to facilitate the assessment of fatigue behaviors of asphalt mixtures after overlay construction.

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沥青加铺层对在役沥青混合料疲劳特性和疲劳寿命的影响

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Construction and Building Materials 工程技术-材料科学：综合

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13.80

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21.60%

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3632

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82 days

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