Thermochimica Acta, Vol.324, No.1-2, 203-213, 1998
Thermal behavior of asphalt cements
Asphalt cements are highly complex mixtures of hydrocarbon molecules whose thermal behavior is of prime importance for petroleum and road industry. From DSC, the determination of several thermal properties of asphalts is given, e.g. glass-transition temperature and crystallized fraction content. The dissolution of a pure n-paraffin CnH2n+2 in an asphalt, as seen by DSC, should be a single peak. For 20