Abstract

Self-healing within asphalt pavements is the process whereby road cracks can be repaired automatically when thermal and mechanical conditions are met. To accelerate and improve this healing process, metal particles are added to asphalt mixtures. However, this approach is costly both [...]

Abstract

Rigid particle models based on the discrete element method (DEM) have been adopted in the study of fracture and viscoelastic properties of mastic and asphalt mixtures. [...]