Recommendation of RILEM TC 182-PEB on bending beam and rheometer measurements of bituminous binders

Title: Recommendation of RILEM TC 182-PEB on bending beam and rheometer measurements of bituminous binders
Author(s): RILEM TC 182 PEB, D. SYBILSKI, A. Vanelstraete, M. N. Partl
Paper category : journal
Serial title: Materials and Structures
Abreviated Serial title: Mater. Struct.
ISSN: 1359-5997
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Volume: 37
Issue: 272
Issue date: 2004-10-01
Publication year: 2004
Pages: 539 - 546
Total Pages: 8
Nb references: 18
Language: English

Abstract: These recommendations present the results and conclusions of the first and second inter-laboratory tests initiated by two consecutive RILEM Technical Committees TC 152-PBM “Performance of Bituminous Materials” and TC 182-PEB “Performance Testing and Evaluation of Bituminous Materials”.
The first test was initiated in 1994 [1] and the second one, which was its follow-up, in 1998.
Both inter-laboratory tests were led by Task Group TG1 “Bituminous Binders”.
The aim of the tests was to compare the results of dynamic rheology measurements of bituminous binders.
While the first inter-laboratory test was limited to dynamic rheometer (DR) measurements, the second inter-laboratory test also covered rheological testing with bending beam rheometers BBR at low temperatures.
Furthermore, the influence of binder ageing, both short and long term, was included in the second inter-laboratory test.
Short term ageing was performed according to [2] using rolling thin film oven tests (RTFOT) at 163ºC and long term ageing according to [3] by applying an additional pressure ageing vessel conditioning (PAV) at 100ºC.
In the DR measurement part of the second inter-laboratory test, eighteen laboratories participated in the first phase (tests on original binders) and fourteen laboratories in the second phase (tests after RTFOT and after RTFOT + PAV-ageing).
In the BBR part, fourteen laboratories participated in the first phase and ten laboratories in the second phase.

Online publication: 2004-08-17
Classification: RILEM Technical Committees
Publication type : full_text
Public price (Euros): 0.00
doi: 10.1617/14205