TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bressi, Sara
AU  - Santos, Joao
AU  - Orešković, Marko
AU  - Losa, Massimo
PY  - 2019
UR  - https://grafar.grf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1751
AB  - Recently, the reduction of the environmental burdens related to highway infrastructures has been in the spotlight. Within this context, the use of recycled materials in bituminous mixtures for road pavement construction and maintenance has the potential to mitigate the excessive use of non-renewable resources. Nevertheless, the material consumption is only one of the aspects that affects the sustainability of an infrastructure. Other relevant aspects related to environmental issues should be considered. The objective of this work is to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of asphalt mixtures containing crumb rubber (CR) (vulcanised or devulcanised) and reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) assuming different Degree of binder Activation (DoA) of the aged binder by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA). The results show that the small amount of CR used for bituminous mixtures application does not justify all the additional consumption of resources and emissions associated with its treatment. These results are explained by the higher environmental impacts stemming from the treatment of the rubber and the higher amount of bitumen employed in the mixture. In turn, for mixtures containing RAP the analysis revealed an improvement in the score of all the environmental indicators considered.
PB  - Taylor&Francis
T2  - International Journal of Pavement Engineering
T1  - A comparative environmental impact analysis of asphalt mixtures containing Crumb Rubber and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement using Life Cycle Assessment
DO  - 10.1080/10298436.2019.1623404
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Bressi, Sara and Santos, Joao and Orešković, Marko and Losa, Massimo",
year = "2019",
abstract = "Recently, the reduction of the environmental burdens related to highway infrastructures has been in the spotlight. Within this context, the use of recycled materials in bituminous mixtures for road pavement construction and maintenance has the potential to mitigate the excessive use of non-renewable resources. Nevertheless, the material consumption is only one of the aspects that affects the sustainability of an infrastructure. Other relevant aspects related to environmental issues should be considered. The objective of this work is to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of asphalt mixtures containing crumb rubber (CR) (vulcanised or devulcanised) and reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) assuming different Degree of binder Activation (DoA) of the aged binder by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA). The results show that the small amount of CR used for bituminous mixtures application does not justify all the additional consumption of resources and emissions associated with its treatment. These results are explained by the higher environmental impacts stemming from the treatment of the rubber and the higher amount of bitumen employed in the mixture. In turn, for mixtures containing RAP the analysis revealed an improvement in the score of all the environmental indicators considered.",
publisher = "Taylor&Francis",
journal = "International Journal of Pavement Engineering",
title = "A comparative environmental impact analysis of asphalt mixtures containing Crumb Rubber and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement using Life Cycle Assessment",
doi = "10.1080/10298436.2019.1623404"
}

Bressi, S., Santos, J., Orešković, M.,& Losa, M.. (2019). A comparative environmental impact analysis of asphalt mixtures containing Crumb Rubber and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement using Life Cycle Assessment. in International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Taylor&Francis..
https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2019.1623404

Bressi S, Santos J, Orešković M, Losa M. A comparative environmental impact analysis of asphalt mixtures containing Crumb Rubber and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement using Life Cycle Assessment. in International Journal of Pavement Engineering. 2019;.
doi:10.1080/10298436.2019.1623404 .

Bressi, Sara, Santos, Joao, Orešković, Marko, Losa, Massimo, "A comparative environmental impact analysis of asphalt mixtures containing Crumb Rubber and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement using Life Cycle Assessment" in International Journal of Pavement Engineering (2019),
https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2019.1623404 . .