Development of performance-based bitumen specifications for the Gulf countries

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-22

  Al Abdul Wahhab, Hamad I ^a   Asi, Ibrahim M ^a   Al Dubabe, Ibrahim A ^b   Farhat Ali, Mohammad ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Awazel Company   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bitumen; Performance based specifications; SHRP

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRACK INITIATION; DEFORMATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MIXTURES; PAVEMENTS; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SPECIFICATIONS;

GULF COUNTRIES;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0031061891     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-0618(97)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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