Research on Temperature Stability of Asphalt Based on Improved Softening Point Test

The softening point is one of the important indexes used to evaluate the high-temperature performance of asphalt. However, some modified asphalt softening points show irregular changes before and after aging, and the correlation with other high-temperature indexes is not high, which has been a concern for researchers. To this end, this work takes styrene-butadiene-styrene-modified asphalt as the research object and long-and short-term aging as the condition, through the improvement of softening point test and combined with the temperature-sensitive correlation, differential scanning calorimetry, and dynamic shear rheology tests, to explore the significance of improving the softening point test-related indicators to provide new ideas for the asphalt performance evaluation system.

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This research focuses on styrene-butadiene-styrene-modified asphalt, and explores the significance of improving softening point test-related indicators through the improvement of testing methods and the combination with other tests, providing new ideas for asphalt performance evaluation.