AASHTO Designation: TP 101-14 Standard Method of Test for Estimating Damage Tolerance of Asphalt Binders Using the Linear Amplitude Sweep

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
Washington, D.C, USA. 2014. 8 This test method covers how to determine asphalt binders’ resistance to damage by means of cyclic loading employing linearly increasing load amplitudes. The amplitude sweep is conducted using the Dynamic Shear Rheometer at the intermediate pavement temperature determined from the performance grade (PG) of the asphalt binder according to M 320. The test method can be used with binder aged using T 240 (RTFOT) and R 28 (PAV) to simulate the estimated aging for in service asphalt pavements.