Technical Note

Application of Preventive Maintenance on

Highway Using Anti-Aging Rejuvenator
Seo, Sang-Gil

Jee, Gu-Sam

Korea Expressway Corporation

Dae-Gu Branch

Head of Technical Department

Sam-Hyun PF

Park, Kyungwon

Head of Roadway Business Department

Sam-Hyun PF

1. BACKGROUND
Recently aging of highway accelerates
deterioration

of

pavement

structures.

Especially, the limited budget is mostly spent

on

milling

rehabilitation

and

overlay

which

for

results

the

pavement

the

pavement

So, a proper PM techniques should be applied

in corresponding to pavement distress causes.
A recent Seoul metro city study reported that
the most frequent pavement distress type is

condition at an unsatisfactory level. Similar

cracks and they are caused 50 percent by

problem has been experienced by European

traffic load and 45 percent by asphalt aging.

countries and United States (US) so that they

KEC

introduced

deteriorates mostly due to cracks. Thus, KEC

Preventive

Maintenance

(PM)

techniques to reduce roadway rehabilitation

budget

and

pavement.

increase
Korea

performance

Expressway

life

of

Corporation

reported

demonstrated

similarly

rejuvenating

that

Highway

technique

on

Seoul-Pusan highway to delay asphalt oxidation.

(KEC) demonstrated US technology to evaluate

Figue 1 shows the rejuvenator which consists

its

of biochemical oil and SBR with colorlessness.

applicability

and

effectiveness

on

the

highway.

Its construction requires spraying a liquid type

2. Technical Background

material

AASHTO
maintenance

defines

aspreventive

the

preventive

maintenance

is

application of the optimum method at a right

time and place."

on

the

pavement

surface

without

mixing aggregates nor lane mark protection

process like a common slurry seal. The sprayed
liquid penetrates pavement surface about 10mm
and forms polymerized protection film to delay

asphalt oxidation from sunray such as UV.

asphalt aging and 4 percent by bleeding.

Because the rejuvenator construction does not

require

lane

spraying

mark

process

rapidly

about

protection

is

30

speedy

process,
and

minutes

it

which

the
cures

reduces

overhead cost. So, it was demonstrated about

1/3

cost

comparing

to

the

other

surface

treatment techniques, i.e., slurry seal and micro

surfacing.
<Figure 2> Treated and Untreated Section

4. Evaluation
4.1 Skid Resistance
KS F 2375 method found the BPN
value of 69.89 and 75.00 for before and
after

section,

respectively.

The

result

shows that the rejuvenator does not affect

skid resistance of the pavement.

<Figure 1> Schematic of Rejuvenator

4.2 Rheological Characteristics

To

3. Demonstration
Asphalt

aging

begins

from

of aging occur during 2 to 4 years of

performance

life.

The

demonstration was applied on the 1 year

old

SMA

pavement

133.84~134.24Km

section

(Seoul

from

direction)

4th

lane, 200meter out of 400 meter was

selected with spraying rate of 0.08 Liter/m2
for

the

comparison

purpose,

as

shown

Figure 2. MicroPaver analysis found the

Pavement

Condition

Index

(PCI)

of

84Satisfactoryand

found

that

the

96

percent

by

distresses

are

the

rheological

characteristics of treated binders, SHRP binder

pavement construction stage and the most

pavement

compare

caused

test was performed using Rotational Viscometer

(RV),

Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR), and

Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR). As shown in

Table 1, RV and DSR results show that the
treated

binders

elasticity

and

increase

of

resistance

is

recovered

BBR

test

viscosity

results

m-value

which

increased

because

and

show

the

tells

crack

the

strain

energy storage capability of asphalt is increased

<

1> Rheological Characteristic Test Result

Test
RV
@135

Result

Treated

Untreated

Visc. (cP)

358.8

778.8

DSR

G (KPa)

0.432

1.460

@64

sin

0.952

0.930

m-value

0.688

0.624

9.329

13.335

BBR

S-value

@ -18

(MPa)

5. Conclusion
The demonstration confirmed the effectiveness
and

applicability

evaluating

skid

of

rejuvenator

resistance

characteristics

of

sections.

following

The

the

and

treated

by

rheological

and

untreated

monitoring

will

be

performed to evaluate its effectiveness on the

performance life elongation and it is proved, the
expended application will

be considered to

reduce the rehabilitation budget and increase

the performance life of highway system.