A REVIEW STUDY OF STONE MATRIX ASPHALT USING A NATURAL FIBRE
Gazia Khurshid Khan , Er. Jyoti Narwal
Abstract
Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) was originally developed in Europe as an impervious/highly durable wearing surface for bridge decks. Based on its performance history, “split matrix asphalt” began to be used as a surface layer for roadways carrying heavy truck traffic throughout Germany and other European countries. Today, it is the “pavement surface of choice” where long term performance and durability is needed. There are two types of pavement, one is flexible pavement and second one is rigid pavement. If the initial cost is considered, than the rigid pavement is costly, but the maintenance cost of it is low. And country like INDIA, its not possible to provide rigid pavement everywhere, so flexible pavement is the option only. In flexible pavement, it is required to be maintained at some interval of time so the cost of maintenance is should be minimum. At present, the maintenance cost is higher so now the method of maintenance has to be modified for the flexible pavement. To avoid the maintenance cost, the proper quality of work and material is important. So to improve the quality, various material or chemicals are used to improve the quality or to improve the property of the raw material. The study is about to improve the properties of bitumen. In this Paper various applications and properties of SMA mixes are studied. Also the studies done by various authors are reviewed in this study. 1.0
References
1. Dr. R. Vasudevan, S.K. Nigam, R. Velkennedy, A. Ramalinga Chandra Sekar, B. Sundarakannan “Utilization of Waste Polymers coated Aggregate for Flexible Pavement And easy Disposal of Waste Polymers” Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Solid waste Management, Chennai, India. pp. 105-111, 5-7September (2007) 2. D S V Prasad, M.Anjan Kumar, G V R Prasada Raju, V. Kondayya “A Study on Flexible Pavement Performance with Reinforced Fly ash Sub base” International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering 4ISSN 0974-5904, Volume 04, No 06 SPL, October, pp. 403- 408(2011) 3. Henning, N. E. (1974). “Evaluation of lignite fly ash as mineral filler in asphaltic concrete.” Report No. Item (2)-73, Twin City Testing and Engineering Laboratory, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Jianhong Dia, Zhanliang Liu, “Influence of Fly Ash Substitution for Mineral Powder on High Temperature Stability of Bituminous Mixture” International Conference on Future Energy, Environment,andMaterials2012. 5. J. Mater. “Coal Ash Utilization In Asphalt Concrete Mixtures” Civ.Eng.11, 295(1999) 6. Meor O. Hamzah , and Teoh C. Yi “ effects of Temperature on Resilient Modulus of Dense Asphalt Mixtures Incorporating Steel Slag Subjected to Short Term Oven Ageing” World Academy of Science, engineering and Technology 46, 008 7. P Sreejith “Use of plastic waste in Bitumen Roads” Powered by WordPress.com (2010) Pada Sabtu, Utilisation Of Waste Plastic In Bituminous Mixes For Road construction,(2010). 8. K.Karthik, “Carbon fiber modified bitumen in bituminous macadam”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development Volume 2, Issue 12, December -2015. 9. Anderson, D.A., and Goetz, W.H. (1973), "Mechanical Behaviour and Reinforcement of Mineral Filler-Asphalt Mixtures", Proceedings of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Volume 42, No. 1, pp. 37-66, USA.