Investigated on hot mix epoxy resin used in steel bridge deck pavement affected by collaborative toughen

Abstract

The hot-mix epoxy resin commonly used in the market has insufficient toughness, resulting in cracking of steel bridge deck pavement. To obtain the excellent toughness of hot mix epoxy resin, the collaborative toughen is put forward to overcome the shortcoming. In order to character epoxy resins and epoxy asphalts affected by toughening agent, standard test method of tensile properties for plastics is used. The synergistic toughening mechanism and lyotropy of 1# rubber additive and 2# rubber additive are approved by analyzing scanning electron microscope. Synchronous thermal analyzer is applied to study reactivity of epoxy resin. The viscosity, reactivity and rheological performance of epoxy asphalt, which affected by toughen agent, are investigated by Brinell rotary viscometer and Dynamic shear rheometer respectively. According to the results, the excellent epoxy resin is obtained, when the dosage of toughen agent is 15 %. The activation energy of epoxy resin before and after toughen are 48.6 KJ/mol and 42.4 KJ/mol, respectively. Besides the toughen agent can reduce the viscosity of epoxy asphalt. Finally, R1 and R2 can enhance the elastic of epoxy asphalt and reduce the glass transition temperature of epoxy asphalt. In summary, with R1 and R2 added, the toughen of epoxy resin improved obviously. The application of toughened epoxy resin to the pavement of orthotropic steel bridge deck will has a very broad prospect.

Keywords

• Steel deck pavement
• Epoxy resin
• Collaborative toughen
• Rheological property
• Hot mixing
• Epoxy asphalt