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MATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ma9070600
Keywords
bitumen; microcapsule; self-healing; tension test; strength
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering [GDDCE15-07]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51573135]
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The aim of this work was to evaluate the self-healing behaviors of bitumen using microcapsules containing rejuvenator by a modified fracture healing-refracture method through a repetitive tension test. Microcapsules had mean size values of 10, 20 and 30 mu m with a same core/shell ratio of 1/1. Various microcapsules/bitumen samples were fabricated with microcapsule contents of 1.0, 3.0 and 5.0 wt. %, respectively. Tension strength values of microcapsules/bitumen samples were measured by a reparative fracture-healing process under different temperatures. It was found that these samples had tensile strength values larger than the data of pure bitumen samples under the same conditions after the four tensile fracture-healing cycles. Fracture morphology investigation and mechanism analysis indicated that the self-healing process was a process consisting of microcapsules being broken, penetrated and diffused. Moreover, the crack healing of bitumen can be considered as a viscosity driven process. The self-healing ability partly repaired the damage of bitumen during service life by comparing the properties of virgin and rejuvenated bitumen.
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