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The ISAP Technical Committee – Asphalt Pavements and Environment (TC-APE) will be hosting the 2021 ISAP Day online event entitled “Near Future for Bitumen and Bituminous Mixtures” on November 23, 2021 from 7:00am to 10:30 am PST (GMT-8).

For further information, see the flyer.

Location: Salon 7 (M2), Marriott Marquis, Washington DC

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8:00 am – 8:15 am  Welcome and Review of ISAP activities by Board of Directors

• Introduction – ISAP Vice Chair (Luis Loria-Salazar)
• ISAP activities summary: Gaylon Baumgardner (ISAP Chair)
• ISAP events coming up in 2020

8:15 am – 11:00 am Pavement Field Evaluation (PFE) Technical Committee

–Committee Chair: Dr. Eshan Dave; Session Co-Chairs: Eshan Dave (University of New Hampshire, USA) and Christina Plati (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Theme: State of the Art in Sensing of Pavement Response

• • 8:15 – 8:20 Introduction to TC PFE,
    Dr. Eshan Dave, University of New Hampshire, United States
  • 8:20 – 8:45 Experience with Fiber-optic based Sensors to Monitor Pavement Response in Severe Loading and Climatic Conditions
    Dr. Jean-Pascal Bilodeau and Prof. Guy Doré, Laval University, Canada
  • 8:45 – 9:15 Solutions for Pavement Instrumentation and Examples of Application
    Dr. Pierre Hornych, IFSTTAR, France
  • 9:15 – 9:45 TSD Measurements and Data Analysis: State of the Art and Future Developments
    Dr. Christoffer Nielson, Greenwood Engineering, Denmark
  • 9:45– 10:15 Sensing Pavement Response at Project and Network Level
    Dr. Dirk Jansen, Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Monitoring Pavement Response using In-Pavement sensors
    Dr. Navneet Garg, Federal Aviation Administration, United States
  • 10:45 – 11:00 Other Items and Closure
  • 11:00 – 12:00 Lunch break

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Constitutive Modeling of Asphaltic Materials (CMAM) Technical Committee –
–Committee Chair: Dr. Tom Scarpas; Delft University of Technology and Khalifa University

Theme: Chemomechanics of Rejuvenation of Asphaltic Materials

• • 12:00 – 12:15 Welcome
    Tom Scarpas, Delft University of Technology and Khalifa University
  • 12:15 – 12:45 Rheological and Compositional Characterization of Modifiers used as Softening Agents and Rejuvenators
    Hasan Ozer, Arizona State University
  • 12:45 – 1:15 Characterization of Mobilization and Blending of Aged Binders in Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixtures
    Zhen Leng, Hong Kong Polytechnic
  • 1:15 – 1:45 Rejuvenator for High-Quality Recycling of PMB RAP
    Xueyan Liu, Delft University of Technology
  • 1:45 – 2:00 Closure
    TC Chair, Dr. Tom Scarpas

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Asphalt Pavements and Environment (APE) Technical Committee

–Committee Co-Chairs: Dr. Gabrielle Tebaldi; University of Parma & University of Florida, and Dr. Manfred Partl, EMPA Switzerland

Theme: Impact of alternative materials on the environmental and technical performance of asphalt mixtures

• • 2:00 – 2:10 Welcome and call to order
    Dr. Gabriele Tebaldi; University of Parma & University of Florida, and Dr. Manfred Partl, EMPA Switzerland
  • 2:10 – 2:25 Short presentation of TC APE: members, scope, activities
  • 2:25 – 2:40 Report of 5th APE Symposium in Padova (I) and 6th APE Symposium in Sun City (ZA)
  • 2:40 – 2:50 Next events organized by TC APE
  • 2:50 – 3:15 New research challenges and new approaches about Ground Tire Rubber recycling and waste plastic recycling
    Dr. William Buttlar, University of Missouri
  • 3:15 – 3:40 A multiscale approach to investigate the use of Ladle Furnace Slags into asphalt mixtures
    Dr. Emiliano Pasquini, University of Padova
  • 3:40 – 4:05 Best Practices in Life Cycle Assessment of Asphalt Mixtures
    Dr. Amlan Mukherjee, Michigan Tech
  • 4:05 – 4:30 Realistic ageing simulation and chemo-mechanical assessment for durable pavement materials
    Dr. Johannes Mirwald, TU Wien
  • 4:30 – 4:55 Recycling of textile wastes in asphalt mixtures
    Dr. Alessandro Marradi, University of Pisa
  • 4:55 – 5:00 AOB
    Dr. Gabriele Tebaldi; University of Parma & University of Florida, and Dr. Manfred Partl, EMPA Switzerland
  • 5:00 – Adjourn

Update 5/14/2019:
The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to June 14, 2019.

The RILEM International Symposium on Bituminous Materials (ISBM Lyon 2020), will be held in Lyon (France) on June 8th-10th 2020.

You can submit an abstract (up to 300 words) by May 10th 2019. Abstracts can be uploaded to the website of the conference, in the “Abstract/paper submission” page:

A full paper will be requested by November 2019. Based on the review by the Scientific Committee, accepted papers will be presented at the symposium (oral presentation or poster) and published in ISI-indexed proceedings.

Authors of selected best papers will be offered the possibility to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the two ISI-indexed journals:
‒ Road Materials and Pavement Design
‒ Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Third Flyer ISBM Lyon 2020 – Call for abstracts