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To reduce thermal susceptibility and improve rutting and fatigue cracking resistance, increasingly more non-conventional additives and materials have been used in road pavement asphalt mixes in recent years. Non-conventional materials mainly include recycled materials, which reduce production costs and lead to environmental benefits related to their reuse. The aim of this research was to evaluate the influence of recycled tyre rubber in the production of asphalt concrete for road pavements built with recycled aggregates consisting of steel slag in relation to possible improvements in structural performance during operation (i.e., fatigue and rutting). Steel slag has a higher bulk specific gravity than natural aggregates, and it has a very porous surface that allows for a different interaction with the bitumen and the crumb rubber compared to traditional aggregates. To this end, two mixtures of asphalt concrete are compared. One was mixed with a modest percentage by weight of crumb rubber using the “dry” technique, and the other mixture did not contain crumb rubber. Indirect tensile and compression tests with cyclic loads were performed to determine the mechanical behaviour of the two mixtures at different temperatures and under different load frequencies. The results of this research indicate the better performance of the modified mixture with crumb rubber, which agrees with other experiments in the literature that have been made using natural aggregates. Furthermore, a significant increase in stiffness was found at high temperatures (up to 30%), a slight reduction (up to 8%) was found at low temperatures, and a reduction in permanent deformation was found under cyclic loads.

A Laboratory Assessment of the Influence of Crumb Rubber in Hot Mix Asphalt with Recycled Steel Slag