Efecto de la adición de materiales compuestos de estireno-butadieno/plumas de pollo en la modificación de asfaltos

Asphalt is an important material for road construction and other applications. That is why it is done the search for materials that in combination with the asphalt generate a product of better quality, lower environmental impacts and low costs, thus allowing to be reflected greater resistance of the asphalt to the extreme climatic conditions and traffic. To cover these different needs, asphalts with a better performance must be counted, having to modify their chemical, physical and rheological properties, in order to improve their behavior to the shearing, deformation, fatigue, ageing, elasticity, etc. In this work, studied the effect of adding composite materials with polymer of the type SBS lineal (Styrene-butadiene-styrene) and the feather of chicken, taking concentrations of 1, 3 and 5 PHR (parts per hundred of rubber) in ratios of 2, 4 and 6% in relation to the weight of asphalt. Techniques were applied to characterize such as dynamic viscosity, softening point, phase separation characterization, penetration index and fluorescent microscopy. As a result, using a polymer of the linear SBS type incorporating keratin from the chicken plume as reinforcement for the asphalt does not present interesting results for application areas such as where high fluidity is required.