Warm Dense Asphalt Mixtures

CONTENTS

1. DEFINITION

2. MATERIALS

3. PROCESS

4. WHEN DOES IT APPLY?

5. PROCESS

6. COLOMBIAN SPECIFICATIONS

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 DEFINITION

Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) are mixes

that are manufactured and spread at
lower temperatures than Hot Mix
Asphalt.

• Hot Mix Asphalt or HMA (190-

150oC)
• Warm Mix Asphalt or WMA (100-
140oC)
• Cold mixes (0-40oC).  

Obtain from: https://eapa.org/warm-mix-asphalt

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MATERIALS

Despite the huge number of reported WMA

technologies found in the literature, they can be,
basically, classified in three main groups:

1. Organic additives: is accomplished by

adding an organic wax to bitumen or
blending it to asphalt concrete mixtures,
reducing the viscosity of the binder. Is
generally formed by a long chain of
hydrocarbon atoms, which is solid at room
temperature and has a melting point
generally around 100 °C.
Obtain from:
https://pt.slideshare.net/diegomartinnunez73/nomenclatura-de-u
n-alcano-ramificado-2/7?smtNoRedir=1
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 MATERIALS

2. Chemical additives: In a few cases,

additives are formed by a package of
products such as surfactants,
emulsification agents, aggregate coating
enhancers and anti-stripping additives. May
reduce the mix and compaction
temperatures around 30 Co

The most common are Rediset™ WMX and

Cecabase. Those types of products chemically
enhance active adhesion and improve the
wetting of aggregates by bitumen without
changing considerably the binder performance
Obtain from:
http://www.warmmixasphalt.org/submissions/57_20080101_Prem%20Naidoo%20-%2
0Akzo%20Nobel%20Rediset%20WMX.pdf
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 MATERIALS

3. Foamed bitumen
technologies:
Bitumen foam is
generally obtained by
adding a small
amount of cold
pulverized water into
preheated bitumen.

Obtain from: https://chm.es/en/warm-mix-asphalt-produced-with-foamed-bitumen-technology/

Aggregates are heated before mixing, the water within the emulsion vaporizes during the
production process and the binder covers the aggregate particles.

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 WHEN DOES IT APPLY?

When the adhesion between binder and

aggregate particles needs to be
chemically adjusted to improve the way
mineral aggregates are coated by
bitumen.
Also is used because it's much cheaper
and it's also environmentally friendly, it´s
reduces fossil fuels consumption and the
emission of greenhouse effect
gases (GHG), such as CO2 (carbon
dioxide)
Obtain from:
https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20180801/ano-2017-registro-cifra-record-emision-gases-efecto-invernad
ero/1772680.shtml

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PROCESS

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COLOMBIAN SPECIFICATIONS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Capitão, S. D., Picado-Santos, L. G., & Martinho, F. (2012). Pavement engineering materials:
Review on the use of warm-mix asphalt. Construction and Building Materials, 36, 1016–1024.
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CONBUILDMAT.2012.06.038

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