Shanghai Experience with Warm Mix Asphalt

Warm mix asphalt (WMA) technologies have been developed to mix, transport, pave, and compact asphalt mixture at temperatures up to 40°C lower than the conventional hot-mix asphalt (HMA). The benefits of WMA include energy savings, lower CO2 emissions, and reduced workers’ exposure to fumes, reduced binder ageing, and faster release of pavement to traffic due to shorter cooling time. Since it was introduced into Shanghai, China in 2006, WMA has been successfully used in more than 10 projects, including expressways and viaducts. The WMA in these projects performs well so far. This paper presents some of these WMA projects in Shanghai.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

  Geo-Institute
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Yan, Jun
  • Zhu, Tiantong
  • Cai, Ming
  • Cao, Zuguang
  • Huang, Wenyuan
  • Dong, Qiao
• Conference:
  • GeoShanghai 2010 International Conference
  • Location: Shanghai , China
  • Date: 2010-6-3 to 2010-6-5
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 97-102
• Monograph Title: Paving Materials and Pavement Analysis

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt mixtures; Binders; Energy conservation; Pollutants; Road construction; Warm mix paving mixtures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Exposure (Human)
• Geographic Terms: Shanghai (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; Pavements; I33: Other Materials used in Pavement Layers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01207087
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411049
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 13 2010 2:53PM