WATER SUSCEPTIBILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF GEOPOL YMER BITUMINOUS MIXTURE

This fmal report is produce to compile the findings of the project entitled 'Water
Susceptibility Characteristics of Geopolymer Bituminous Mixture' for Final Year
Project 2. This report contains project background, problem statement, objective &
scope of study, literature review, methodology, result & discussion and also conclusion
& recommendation section.
Geopolymer bituminous mixture is a new finding that can replace the normal
conventional bituminous mixture because it is higher in strength. It is a mixture which
has strengthens by geopolymer slurry and proved its strength by Marshall Test. This
project is to affirm the findings with the study on one of its performance which is the
water susceptibility.
The test needs to be conducted in order to understand how this material could
resist one of the major failures in pavement that is stripping. Hence this project will
assist us to get more information on the reaction of the presence of water to this mixture.
Besides, we also can make comparison between geopolymer bituminous mixtures with
the normal pavement in terms of moisture susceptibility.
Therefore, this report will explain on the mechanism of moisture damage, factors
that influence the damages, stripping & de bonding process, properties of water, lists of
laboratory tests (qualitative & quantitative) that can be apply to achieve the objective,
result and discussion gained from the test. Finally, we compare and conclude the overall
findings on this study.