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NEXCEL Ph.D. student ZHANG Tianwei gave a presentation
Time: 2025/11/11  Publisher: oiginal  Views:
The 14th Youth Forum on Road and Airport Engineering Research was held in Wuhan from October 31 to November 2, 2025. The conference attracted over 600 experts and scholars. Mr. ZHANG Tianwei from Wuhan University of Technology delivered a presentation titled “Preparation and Performance Study of Self-Healing Crumb Rubber-Modified Asphalt Waterproofing Membranes” at the “Functional Resilience of Roads and Airports” session. His research titled “Preparation and Performance Study of Self-healing Polymer-modified Asphalt Waterproofing Membranes” was funded by NEXCEL.

 

 

 

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The project team utilized esterification reactions to introduce dynamic chemical bonds between crumb rubber particles, and prepared self-healing crumb rubber modified asphalt. The introduction of dynamic disulfide bonds significantly enhanced the crack-healing capability of crumb rubber modified asphalt on the macro-micro-nano scales. The molecular healing behavior of self-healing crumb rubber-modified asphalt had a linear correlation with the fatigue healing index and fracture healing rate. The faster the movement and entanglement speed of the molecular chains of self-healing crumb rubber-modified asphalt at crack, the stronger its healing capacity for both micro-cracks and macro-cracks. Compared to ordinary crumb rubber modified asphalt, the crumb rubber particles in self-healing crumb rubber modified asphalt exhibit better dispersion. This is attributed to the introduction of dynamic disulfide bonds between crumb rubber particles forming a bridge structure, which enables uniform dispersion of crumb rubber particles in asphalt. 
 

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