Session 2 – Performance and multiscale modelling

Time: Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 14:30-16:15

Multi-scale analysis of ageing behaviour in bituminous materials
Sadaf Khalighi¹, Lili Ma¹, Kristina Primerano², Johannes Mirwald², Bernhard Hofko², Diederik van Lent³, Aikaterini Varveri^1
1Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; ²TU Wien, Austria; ³Netherlands Organizations for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Netherlands

Advanced discrete element analysis of tyre – pavement interactions on textured bituminous surfaces based on the French wheel tracking test
Juan Carlos Quezada¹, Oussama Hammoud², Dexin Liu¹, Ferhat Hammoum³, Cyrille Chazallon¹, Philippe Klein^3,4, Julien Cesbron^3
1INSA Strasbourg, France; ²AMOCER Group, Lyon, France; ³Université Gustave Eiffel, Campus de Nantes, France; ⁴Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

Long-term performance of asphalt mixtures containing bio-extended bituminous binders: Laboratory investigation and Accelerated Pavement Testing
Jiqing Zhu¹, Abubeker Ahmed¹, Yared Dinegdae¹, Andreas Waldemarson¹, Xiaohu Lu², Patryk Witkiewicz³, Kenneth Olsson^4
1Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Sweden; ²Nynas AB, Sweden; ³Skanska Sverige AB, Sweden, ⁴Skanska Industrial Solutions AB, Sweden

Towards a better understanding of crack propagation in asphalt pavements with reinforcement grids (using laboratory-scaled traffic load and interlayer shear test)
Christiane Raab¹, Martin Arraigada^1
1Concrete and Asphalt Laboratory, Empa, Switzerland

Bitumen Optical Microscopy as A Quality Assurance Tool through Deployment of Trained Siamese Neural Network Model
Nazmus Sakib¹, Nafis Tahmid², Shattik Islam Rhythm², Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid², Amit Bhasin^3
1Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh; ²Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh; ³University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA