Introduction; The Asphalt Industry; 2.2 Recent Market Trends; 2.3 Regulations; 2.4 Distinct Technologies; 2.5 Environment/Sustainability Issues; Key Bitumen Properties; 3.2 Bitumen Characteristics; 3.4 Polymer-Modifed Binders; Key Asphalt Properties; 4.3 Standards for Asphalt Mixtures and Flexible Pavement Design; 4.4 Measuring Mechanical Properties; Polymers Used in Asphalt; 5.2 Different Polymer Types; Polymer Used as Aggregate; Legislation; 8.2 European Product Standards; 8.3 European Technical Approvals; Abbreviations and Acronyms; References
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Summary
Modifiers have been used to improve the performance of asphalt/aggregate mixtures for building roads for over the past hundred years and during that time the industry has evolved into a sophisticated sector that is heavily regulated by national and European standards. The modifiers used take many different forms: polymers, latex, and many chemical additives. Determining how modifiers actually affect the performance of a mixture and establishing construction quality control procedures for these modifiers can be extremely difficult. In the past these difficulties have caused many specifying agen
