Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Bituminous pavements play extensive part of roadway system in India, building and maintaining them is an expensive task. Hence, it is vital that a quality binder and mix be produced consistently and economically. Performance of a flexible pavement mainly depends on bituminous mix design done in laboratory, mix design procedure followed in laboratory should be a true indicator of field conditions. Further modified bituminous binders are used to enhance the performance of bituminous mix as well as bituminous pavements. Since modified bituminous binders are expensive and exhibit less shelf life, it is observed that, the adulteration of modified bituminous binder’s increases due to its cost in market, which reduces the performance of binder, leading to decline in pavement performance during service. Adulteration of binders cannot be easily traced through conventional testing/evaluation procedures; therefore, it requires a specialized, quick, efficient and fool proof testing practice of binder