Asphalt is the world's most important and commonly used material for road and airport pavement infrastructures. It is a durable, economical building material that can be recycled several times, is easy to process, and can be paved without joints in a comparatively short construction time. Over the past decades, the composition of road asphalt mixtures has changed dramatically compared to earlier asphalt mixtures, and consequently, the asphalt material behavior has changed significantly. As a result, traditional approaches are increasingly losing their applicability and significance. The development of smart, sustainable, and functional materials is a new challenge that researchers all over the world are facing to tackle the aforementioned needs.
Although asphalt technology has gradually developed into an independent field of research in materials science, the selection of appropriate methodologies and techniques for material modeling and performance testing, as well as for structural pavement design requires profound knowledge of rheology, solid and fluid mechanics, chemistry, and statistical modeling. Developing functional smart durable and sustainable asphalt mixtures may be seen as a critical challenge for a new generation of asphalt researchers and technologists.
The aim of this Research Topic collection is to provide scientists, and researchers an opportunity to present and forward new and emerging ideas. “Recent Advances in Asphalt materials” shall highlight the latest trends in asphalt material research and the pavement engineering sector, and it shall present the latest developments of innovative materials and technologies for asphalt mixtures. Both original research and review article types are welcome. The scope of this Research Topic covers, but is not limited to the following themes:
• Next-generation asphalt materials
• Applications of new materials in asphalt technology
• Durability and environmental aspects
• Recycling of asphalt materials
• Temperature reduced production and paving of asphalt mixtures
• Rheological properties of asphalt materials
• Modeling asphalt materials
• Cracking and healing in asphalt mixtures
• Polymer and fiber modified asphalt materials
• Nanomaterials in asphalt pavement materials
• Microstructure properties of asphalt materials
• New approaches in asphalt pavement design
• Digitalization in asphalt materials and pavements
Asphalt is the world's most important and commonly used material for road and airport pavement infrastructures. It is a durable, economical building material that can be recycled several times, is easy to process, and can be paved without joints in a comparatively short construction time. Over the past decades, the composition of road asphalt mixtures has changed dramatically compared to earlier asphalt mixtures, and consequently, the asphalt material behavior has changed significantly. As a result, traditional approaches are increasingly losing their applicability and significance. The development of smart, sustainable, and functional materials is a new challenge that researchers all over the world are facing to tackle the aforementioned needs.
Although asphalt technology has gradually developed into an independent field of research in materials science, the selection of appropriate methodologies and techniques for material modeling and performance testing, as well as for structural pavement design requires profound knowledge of rheology, solid and fluid mechanics, chemistry, and statistical modeling. Developing functional smart durable and sustainable asphalt mixtures may be seen as a critical challenge for a new generation of asphalt researchers and technologists.
The aim of this Research Topic collection is to provide scientists, and researchers an opportunity to present and forward new and emerging ideas. “Recent Advances in Asphalt materials” shall highlight the latest trends in asphalt material research and the pavement engineering sector, and it shall present the latest developments of innovative materials and technologies for asphalt mixtures. Both original research and review article types are welcome. The scope of this Research Topic covers, but is not limited to the following themes:
• Next-generation asphalt materials
• Applications of new materials in asphalt technology
• Durability and environmental aspects
• Recycling of asphalt materials
• Temperature reduced production and paving of asphalt mixtures
• Rheological properties of asphalt materials
• Modeling asphalt materials
• Cracking and healing in asphalt mixtures
• Polymer and fiber modified asphalt materials
• Nanomaterials in asphalt pavement materials
• Microstructure properties of asphalt materials
• New approaches in asphalt pavement design
• Digitalization in asphalt materials and pavements
