When Asphalt Breaks, Fibres Step In

Submission 2025

Fibre Reinforcement in Asphalt Cracking
Submitted by:Mohamed Saleh
Department:Civil + Environmental Engineering
Faculty:Engineering

This photo shows an asphalt concrete (used for road construction) sample being tested for crack resistance, and how waste plastic fibres is working to bridge the crack and resist crack failure.

Was your image created using Generative AI?
No.

How was your image created?
It was captured through photography and edited on a PDF markup software.

Where is the image located?
It was captured during a cracking test (called IDEAL-CT test) during an early phase of my PhD research at the asphalt teaching lab in NREF 1-090.