Experimental Investigation on Bituminous pavement with different sieve sizes and addition of melted plastic waste to improve temperature resistivity and strength

The discussion of the structural damage of a pavements are due to the combined influence of traffic loading and environmental considerations has been the thought that this knowledge, measured in terms of stress, strain and deflection, could be applied in some way to the pavement analysis, performance prediction, and design. Such application cannot be realized, however without the ability to determine the state of stress that occurs within the pavement due to the effect of loading and environmental factors. In addition, mechanistic-empirical pavement design methods for pavement are based on the assumption that the pavement performance and life are inversely proportional to the magnitude of the traffic induced pavement strains, which in turn, varies with temperature. Because these relationships are nonlinear, the additional pavement life consumed at higher-than-average temperature is not offset by savings at lower than-average conditions. Moisture damage in mixtures is defined as the gradual loss of structural integrity caused by the presence of moisture.