INVESTIGATION OF MODIFIED BITUMEN USING GLASS FIBRE IN BITUMINOUS CONCRETE

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Study has been devoted to change the properties of BI and enhance the performance of the flexible pavements. Adopting various fibers in mixtures is known as beneficial HMA modifier. Even though applying these modifiers increases the initial cost, they may enhance pavement resistance for rutting thereby, postpone the rehabilitations and decrease maintenance cost. Glass fiber is a type of material comprising abundant fibers of fine glass. Additive is a major factor to improve performance of Flexible Pavements. Glass Fibers have been use to enhance the performance of asphalt mixtures counteract permanent deformation and fatigue cracking because of with the asphalt and excellent automatic properties. Bitumen source can is available in different forms and grades. For elaborating bitumen and studying the performance bituminous concrete (BC), Penetration and ductility tests are necessarily performed. The other tests like softening point, flash and fire point test are more useful to guide the paving analysts during field investigations. In the below present analysis, attempt is made to understand or study effects of the use of natural mineral fiber called glass fiber as an additive in bituminous concrete (BC) mix. An experimental analysis should be performed on conventional bitumen and fibers using Marshall Procedure, Optimum Fiber Content (OFC) and Optimum Binder Content (OBC) for BC are to be calculated respectively. The glass fiber at different percentages i.e. 0.5% to 2.5% is subjected to different optimum binder content specimens and performance is investigated.

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