Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering

Bitumen emulsion is used as a bonding material between two layers and partially acts as a water proofing agent; it gained more importance when there were environmental concerns with cutbacks bitumen. A very few properties of bitumen emulsions are known so far from its physical and chemical prospecti...

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Main Author:	Ullah Khan, Najeeb
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48937/25/NajeebUllahKhanMFKA2014.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.489372020-07-08T02:55:20Z Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering 2014-08 Ullah Khan, Najeeb TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Bitumen emulsion is used as a bonding material between two layers and partially acts as a water proofing agent; it gained more importance when there were environmental concerns with cutbacks bitumen. A very few properties of bitumen emulsions are known so far from its physical and chemical prospective. However, a new method to measure its dielectric properties i.e. permittivity by applying electromagnetic waves (microwaves) with open ended coaxial probe (OCP) method was investigated in this study at different temperatures and frequency of 8 to 12 GHz. After examining the physical properties of certain bitumen emulsion a correlation was established on the basis of dielectric constant (permittivity) with the existing conventional property viscosity at temperature of 25, 40, 50 and 60°C. On the basis of these properties different characteristics of the bitumen emulsion were found and hence, a correlation was established to predict its behavior. A good correlation factor was found for the four types of samples used in the study which were 0.98 for SS-1K, 0.99 for MS-1K, 1.00 for RS-1K and 0.99 for K1-40. This study has provided an effective parameter to measure and predict the behavior of bitumen emulsion at different temperature, which can be applied in highway industry. 2014-08 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48937/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48937/25/NajeebUllahKhanMFKA2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:85093 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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description	Bitumen emulsion is used as a bonding material between two layers and partially acts as a water proofing agent; it gained more importance when there were environmental concerns with cutbacks bitumen. A very few properties of bitumen emulsions are known so far from its physical and chemical prospective. However, a new method to measure its dielectric properties i.e. permittivity by applying electromagnetic waves (microwaves) with open ended coaxial probe (OCP) method was investigated in this study at different temperatures and frequency of 8 to 12 GHz. After examining the physical properties of certain bitumen emulsion a correlation was established on the basis of dielectric constant (permittivity) with the existing conventional property viscosity at temperature of 25, 40, 50 and 60°C. On the basis of these properties different characteristics of the bitumen emulsion were found and hence, a correlation was established to predict its behavior. A good correlation factor was found for the four types of samples used in the study which were 0.98 for SS-1K, 0.99 for MS-1K, 1.00 for RS-1K and 0.99 for K1-40. This study has provided an effective parameter to measure and predict the behavior of bitumen emulsion at different temperature, which can be applied in highway industry.
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author	Ullah Khan, Najeeb
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title	Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering
title_short	Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering
title_full	Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering
title_fullStr	Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering
title_full_unstemmed	Microwave parameters for bitumen emulsion and its application in highway engineering
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