Fatigue behavior of SMA and HMA mixtures

Fatigue crack is a main form of structural damage in flexible pavements. Under the action of repeated vehicular loading, deterioration of the asphalt concrete materials in pavements caused by the accumulation and growth of the micro and macro cracks gradually takes place. The indirect tensile tests was carried out on hot mix asphalt HMA and stone matrix asphalt SMA mixtures comprising different nominal maximum aggregate sizes NMAS in three temperatures of 5, 25 and 40 °C. Stiffness modulus, fatigue lives and fatigue prediction equation of the mixtures were developed and characterized in terms of aggregate gradation type, coarseness and fineness of gradation, temperature and asphalt content.