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Double bituminous surface treatment (DBST) has been a widely utilized pavement maintenance material due to its capability to restore the surface roughness of existing pavement and provide a layer of protection against weathering, aging, and moisture. However, DBST is highly prone to aggregate loss at an early stage, which is a very common problem experienced by surface treatment. Therefore, to lessen the aggregate loss and prolong the service life of DBST, fiber additive can be incorporated to strengthen the adhesion between the asphalt emulsion and aggregates. This study investigated the performance of glass fiber-reinforced polymer-modified DBST against aggregate loss by conducting laboratory tests using typical DBST as the benchmark of the test results. Four laboratory tests were chosen to represent different loading applications on the surface of the pavement: the bitumen bond strength (BBS) test, the sweep test, the Hamburg wheel-track test (HWT test), and a one-third-scale model mobile load simulator (MMLS3) model. Furthermore, the curing time of the asphalt emulsion was considered in the BBS test and sweep test. Based on all results from the conducted laboratory tests, polymer-modified DBST with glass fiber reinforcement presented an increased resistance to aggregate loss compared with typical DBST. Moreover, it was found that a longer curing time of the asphalt emulsion, whether it was typical or modified, strengthened the surface treatment's resistance to aggregate loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • We reviewed the asphalt mixes modified with lignin fiber and glass fiber. • Studied of rutting, water damage, thermal and fatigue cracking in asphalt mixes. • Lignin fiber improves the resistance to low temperature cracking in asphalt mixes. • Glass fiber improves the high temperature performance in asphalt mixes. • Both fibers improve fatigue performance and water stability in asphalt mixes. Abstract Low temperature thermal cracking, rutting, moisture damage and fatigue cracking are popular damages that appear in the asphalt mixture. These problems occur mainly because of the growth in the number of heavy load vehicles, design and construction errors and environmental condition that reduce the quality, performance and the service life of the pavement. Several previous studies showed that using additives like fibers to modify asphalt mixtures could enhance the efficiency and boost the quality and service life of the pavement. This paper presents a review of the role of lignin and glass fiber as a modifier in bituminous mixes. To evaluate some main mixture properties, some tests such as the low temperature bending, indirect tensile strength, the wheel loading tracking, Hamburg wheel tracking, Marshall immersion, freezing-thaw splitting, third-point bending fatigue and indirect tensile fatigue are applied to analyze rutting, low temperature cracking resistance, moisture damage resistance and fatigue resistance of asphalt mixture modified with lignin or glass fiber. Results denoted that the quality of asphalt mixture enhanced significantly by adding lignin fiber or glass fiber. Previous researches demonstrated an obvious improvement in low temperature performance in the pavement when adding 0.2–0.4% lignin fiber of asphalt mixtures, with a limited improvement of high temperature performance. On the contrary, the asphalt mixtures modified with 0.2–0.6% glass fiber of asphalt mixtures significantly improved the resistance of high temperature. So it is hard to improve all the performances of the mixture by using only a single admixture at the same time. Thus, a new way of modifying asphalt mixture that is called double-mixture technology or composite modification, which is able to enhance the overall properties of asphalt mixture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]