• Method adopted/last revised: 2012
• Method reapproved: None
• REF/ISBN: IP493-BITUMEN
• Status: New
• First printed in STM books: January 2012

Scope

This European Standard specifies a method for the recovery of binder from a bituminous emulsion or from a cut-back or fluxed bitumen after conditioning at ambient temperature for 24 h followed by 24 h at 50 °C, in such a way that will enable further testing with minimum changes of the binder characteristics.

It applies to all types of bituminous emulsions, modified with polymers or non-modified, as well as to all types of cut-back and fluxed bitumens, both modified with polymers and non-modified.

For cut-back and fluxed bituminous binders, this test method is only an intermediate step and should be followed by the stabilisation procedure specified by EN 13074-2. Direct testing of the recovered binder is however used to evaluate the setting ability of fluxed bituminous binders made with vegetal fluxes.

NOTE The recovered binder is not necessarily identical to the initial binder.