Incorporation de particules de bardeaux d’asphalte de postconsommation dans les enrobés bitumineux

Abstract

Every year, more than 200 000 tons of used residential roofing asphalt shingles are sent to landfills in Quebec. In order to reduce this amount, a research project funded by the 3RMCDQ and RECYC-QUÉBEC is ongoing at the LCMB at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. This project studies the feasibility of incorporating tear-off shingles particles in hot mix asphalt which could be used on Quebec roads. Currently, in Quebec, the ministry of Transportation (MTQ), allows the use of 5% of new asphalt shingles (factory reject) in the base course and 3% in the surface course, and tear-off shingles are not allowed. Incorporating new shingles particles is valued notably by the MTQ standardization for a reduction of binder in these mixes. As of now, the MTQ does not have a standard on the use of tear-off shingles, but the subject of experimental boards. The research done at ETS aim to characterize a standard base mix, GB20, and a standard surface mix, ESG-10, that contains tear-off shingles. Mixes containing different percentage of virgin binder were fabricated then tested on compaction capacity, on rutting resistance, on thermal cracking resistance (TSRST) and on complex modulus (E*). The amount of virgin binder is calculated according to different percentage of effective binder from the shingles. This study has permitted to identify an optimal formula for both types of hot mix asphalt that were tested. Results show that for the standard ESG-10 surface mix, the possible contribution of tear-off asphalt shingles would be about 20%. For the standard GB-20 base mix, no reduction in the virgin binder may be considered for now when 5% of tear-off asphalt shingles are incorporated in the formula mix. In this case, further testing on complex modulus are recommended to obtain meaningful results that will determine if a reduction of the virgin binder would not be favorable.

Date	16 Jan 2013
Original language	French
Awarding Institution	École de technologie supérieure
Supervisor	Daniel Perraton (Supervisor) & Alan Carter (Co-supervisor)