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Asphalt (HiMA)
Next Generation in
Asphalt Pavement Design
Figure 1: Effect of increasing SBS polymer content on bitumen/polymer morphology
Conventional SBS polymer loadings give
What is HiMA?
Bitumen +SBS Oil swollen polymer phase Discontinuous Polymer Phase
improvements to properties, but as shown
in Figure 1, the dominant phase is still the 2.5%
HiMA is simply Highly Modified Asphalt; like bitumen. However, if the polymer content
increases, the phases invert so the “bitumen” Co-continuous Bitumen-Polymer Phase
a tool that can be used to solve a variety now behaves much more like rubber. 5.0%
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SBS Content (%)
Structural Pavements
Up-front and life-cycle cost reduction,
pavement durability, and environmental 0.0129 Badly cracked section of highway PR-092 in Highway PR-092 after 30.5 cm (12”) old asphalt
impact will continue to be key Kraton™ HiMA 0.0121 Unmodified Asphalt Paraná state, Brazil before rehabilitation pavement had been replaced with 16.5 cm (6 ½”) highly
[150 mm (6”) asphalt] 0.0113 [250 mm (10”) asphalt] modified asphalt; 45% thickness reduction applied
concerns for the roads industry. Kraton
Total damage at 9000 axle loads 0.0105 Total damage at 9000 axle loads
Performance Polymers has developed 0.0097
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a solution to improve durability, and
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reduce costs and resource use when 0.0073
building or reconstructing roads. 0.0065
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Our highly modified asphalt technology 0.0041
for asphalt base courses allows pavement 0.0033
This concept is being validated at the Before reconstruction: severe rutting in pavement on New Highly Modified Asphalt base course
National Center for Asphalt Technology container loading area at the port of Napier, New Zealand paved at the port of Napier, New Zealand
(NCAT) at Auburn University in Opelika, Wearing Course
Alabama, with exceptionally good results
to date.
250 mm (10”) 250 mm (10”)
pavement paved
pavement paved
Pavement design calculations with August 2006
August 2006 125 mm (5”)
software that includes both stiffness rehabilitation
Base Course 125 mm (5”)
values and fatigue results for a given mix 250 mm (10”) rehabilitation August 2009
150 mm (6”) 140 mm (5 ½”)
demonstrate that the results found at Delft August 2009 HiMA rehab
University of Technology and NCAT can 10 months old August 2010
13 months old
be predicted with the material parameters
of a highly modified asphalt mix.
June 2010 – NCAT Section N8 conventional rehabilitation after September 2011 – NCAT Section N8 HiMA rehabilitation after
Subgrade E = 100 MPa (14,500 psi) 10 months, 4 MM ESALs. First crack appeared at 2.7 MM ESALs. 13 months, 5.3 MM ESALs. Oklahoma will sponsor this section
through the 2012 test track cycle to monitor deterioration and
evaluate preservation strategies.
To create adequate stiffness,
hard base bitumen is used.
The SBS modification
boosts fatigue resistance.
Superior fatigue resistance, while maintaining Delivers even greater durability and service
life at standard thickness levels
Sustainability Research Center (HSRC) located at the low temperature cracking up to an estimated temperature
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. All mixtures used of approximately -28 °C, and show minimal rutting and formulations allow durable SP (°C) / SP (°F) 1 Hour 6 Days
a polymer modified asphalt binder consisting of a soft (PG moisture damage in the field. asphalt pavement with a reduced Control 62 / 144 293 / 27.2 410 / 38.1
-34) neat binder modified with 7.5% HiMA polymer.
pavement thickness that lowers HiMA 83 / 181 95 / 8.8 171 / 15.9
costs thus permitting larger
Figure 4: Results Summary from Testing the HiMA Mixtures Placed in Minnesota (MN), New Hampshire (NH), and Vermont (VT) resurfacing opportunities within
Figure 6: Control + HiMA Micro Surfacing Emulsion Particle Size Distribution
Average OT Cycles Average Average Rut HWTD – fixed budgets. HiMA technology
Mixture to 93% Load TSRST Failure Depth from APA Stripping
enables the installation of roads
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Reduction Temperature after 8,000 Cycles Inflection Point 9
Control - 3.5wt% SBR Latex-Modified
Volume (%)
MN Control (No Polymer) 133 -32.2 °C 6.20 mm 14,600 6
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