Evaluation of fracture and moisture damage performance of wax modified asphalt mixtures

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-155

  Das, Prabir Kumar ^a   Tasdemir, Yuksel ^b   Birgisson, Björn ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BOZOK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cracking; HMA fracture mechanics; Low temperature performance; Moisture damage; Superpave IDT; Wax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863608671     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680629.2011.644120     Document Type: Article

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