Study on High and Low Temperature Performance of Mineral Powder Modified Rubber Asphalt Mortar

• Published in: Coatings (Basel) 2023-04, Vol.13 (4), p.791
• Main Authors: Liu, Weichao, Zhang, Ce, Li, Lingyun, Wang, Lianfang, Wang, Lipeng, Pu, Changyu, Yang, Guangqing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aluminum oxide; Asphalt pavements; Chemical properties; Coal; Coal industry; Coal mining; Cone penetration tests; Fillers; Gangue; Limestone; Low temperature; Mortars (material); Performance enhancement; Powders; Ratios; Rheological properties; Rheology; Roads & highways; Rubber; Shear strength; Silicon dioxide; Stiffness; Temperature; Thermal stability
• ISSN: 2079-6412; 2079-6412
• DOI: 10.3390/coatings13040791

With the increase of coal mining in China, a large amount of waste coal gangue is produced. How to reuse waste coal gangue is an important research direction. The research results showed that the improvement of base asphalt mortar by coal gangue powder could improve the performance of matrix asphalt, however, search of rubber asphalt mortar modified by coal gangue powder is rarely reported. High and low-temperature performance is the critical performance of asphalt mortar. So the limestone powder modified base asphalt mortar (LPMBAM), limestone powder modified rubber asphalt mortar (LPMRAM), and coal gangue powder modified rubber asphalt mortar (CGPMRAM) are prepared, the high and low-temperature performance of asphalt mortar are analyzed by cone penetration tests and bending beam rheological tests (BBR). The results show that the cone penetration of asphalt mortar decreases with the increase of the filler-asphalt ratio and the decrease of the temperature. The shear strength and the stiffness modulus increase with the rise in the filler-asphalt ratio and the decrease in temperature. At the same filler-asphalt ratio and temperature, the order of cone penetration is CGPMRAM < LPMRAM < LPMBAM, and the order of shear strength is CGPMRAM > LPMRAM > LPMBAM, so the high-temperature performance of CGPMRAM is better than that of LPMRAM, much better than LPMBAM, the order of stiffness modulus is LPMRAM < CGPMRAM < LPMBAM so the low-temperature performance of LPMRAM and CGPMRAM is better than that of LPMBAM. By the double linear model, the optimum filler-asphalt ratio is determined to be 0.44~0.46 for LPMRAM and 0.42~0.43 for CGPMRAM. Microscopic tests show that the surface of coal gangue powder is rougher than that of limestone powder. The content of active oxides such as SiO2 and Al2O3 in coal gangue is about 7.8 times that of limestone powder. These physical and chemical properties make coal gangue powder able to adsorb rubber asphalt better and improve the high-temperature performance of CGPMRAM while slightly worsening the low-temperature performance of CGPMRAM but still better than LPMBAM.