Addition of sugar cane berry fiber in asphalt concrete: comparative analysis

Abstract

The search for improvement of the materials used in paving has been shown to be an extremely necessary activity in view of the pathologies observed of the Research on the use of agro-industrial waste as a source of raw materials for civil construction has now proved to be an efficient and sustainable practice. In this sense, the objective of the research is to perform a comparative analysis of urban paving using asphalt petroleum concrete and petroleum asphalt concrete with the addition of fiber from sugarcane bagasse in order to evaluate the pavement performance as the thermal and fatigue cracking, costs and durability of paving. Based on the assays, it is concluded that the addition of sugarcane bagasse fiber is a promising alternative that can be applied to the improvement of conventional HMA.