Self-healing Asphalt Roads: Evaluation of Calcium Alginate Capsules with Bio-Oil

Marina Cabette, Rui Micaelo, Jorge Pais

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Abstract

Incorporating extrinsic self-healing factors in road materials and pavements can transform the road construction and maintenance procebes by increasing their life span and eliminating or reducing the need for maintenance. One autonomic self-healing technology available for asphalt pavement is embedding in the material capsules containing rejuvenators. This work presents one production method for encapsulating rejuvenators and abebes capsules characteristics (physical and mechanical). Ca-alginate capsules with Bio-Oil as a rejuvenator were produced in different contents, changing the design parameters, namely the ratio of ca-alginate and rejuvenator. Capsules were characterized based on morphology, size, composition, thermal and mechanical strength.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)688-695
Number of pages8
JournalTransportation Research Procedia
Volume72
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2022 Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena, TRA Lisbon 2022 - Lisboa, Portugal
Duration: 14 Nov 202217 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • bio-oil
  • calcium alginate capsule
  • compressive test
  • rejuvenator
  • Self-healing
  • thermogravimetric test

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