Elastomeric Asphalt Extender – A New Frontier on Asphalt Rubber Mixes
The Reacted and Activated Rubber (RAR), as an Asphalt Rubber Binder, is composed of plain soft bitumen, fine crumb rubber, and an […]
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Using Statistical Analysis to Compare Life Cycle Costs of Rubberized Hot Mix Asphalt with Conventional Hot Mix
Asphalt Rubber (AR) has been used in the United States since 1960s. Because AR binders contain a Crumb Rubber Modifier (CRM) manufactured […]
SUPERIOR AGING CHARACTERISTICS OF ASPHALT RUBBER
This paper highlights the aging superiority of asphalt rubber and asphalt rubber hot mixes compared to conventional asphalts and mixes. The paper […]
LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT SYSTEMS REHABILITATED WITH THE USE OF ASPHALT RUBBER INTERLAYERS
The use of asphalt rubber aggregate membrane (ARAM) interlayers (ARAMI) in the rehabilitation of flexible and rigid pavement systems has been shown […]
COMPARISONS OF RUBBERIZED ASPHALT BINDERS: Asphalt-Rubber and Terminal Blend
The paper provides a comparison between two different rubberized asphalt binders; namely asphalt rubber and terminal blend. It discusses the two processes […]
Field Performance of Projects Containing Crumb Rubber Modified Asphaltic Concrete
The United States Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 specified that all asphalt pavement projects funded by federal agencies must […]
Seven Year Itch – Evaluation of Caltrans Full Scale Experiment on Asphalt Rubber Modified Pavements
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has been using scrap tire rubber in asphalt pavements since the 1970s in chip seals and […]
Asphalt-Rubber 45 Years of Progress
Since the mid 1960’s the state of Arizona in the United States has used a unique asphalt binder called asphalt-rubber (AR) which […]
Asphalt-Rubber Standard Practice Guide – An Overview
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the basic information about the design and use of asphalt-rubber (AR) […]
Performance Grading of Recycled Tire Rubber Binders
In the 1990’s a new binder speciication was introduced, this was the Superpave binder speciication. The Superpave binder speciication is based on […]