Evaluation of Rutting Performance of Airport Sulfur-Containing Asphalt

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The air transport industry, especially in the military sector, as one of these critical centers for carrying out operations to help and repel enemy attacks is considered as an essential facility for crisis management. One of these facilities is the proper performance of airport runway pavement for timely landing and takeoff of airplanes. Since the destruction of the airport runway pavement to disrupt the flights is one of the primary goals of the enemy for the next attacks, in this research, sulfur is used as a substitute for bitumen in asphalt with the aim of quickly repairing of asphalt pavement. The performance of the mixture against rutting damage has been evaluated in a certain short time after making the mixture. The evaluations show that sulfur, due to having special characteristics, causes the rapid prepration and hardening of the mixture by temperature drop. It increases the rutting resistance sharply.

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