{"id":1682,"date":"2016-06-18T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2016-06-15T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:03:54","slug":"sbs-polymers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/sbs-polymers\/","title":{"rendered":"SBS-Polymers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first synthetic thermoplastic materials entered the market in the middle of the last century (1965). \u00a0The SBS-polymer name comes from &#8220;styrene- butadiene-styrene&#8221;. \u00a0This material has a chemical structure with elastic internal block. \u00a0This is why SBS-polymers are perfect to be mixed with bitumen. \u00a0Polybutadiene chain is formed as a result of such interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Characteristic of these polymers is that polybutadiene and polystyrene are not stratified because they are connected to each other chemically.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>What is the impact of SBS-polymers on the properties of bitumen?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Due to the presence of SBS-polymers, bitumen has the optimal flexibility and viscosity at low outside temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Implementing SBS-polymer as binding agents achieves following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>better resistance to permanent mechanical stresses at rising temperatures. \u00a0This is achieved by high viscosity provided by the presence of polymer matrix;<\/li>\n<li>high resistance to cracking at low temperature;<\/li>\n<li>increased resistance to thermal and mechanical pressure, which is achieved by increasing stiffness;<\/li>\n<li>increased wear resistance;<\/li>\n<li>high resistance to aging and improved characteristics of binding agent fragility for porous asphalt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experts claim that using SBS-polymers is one of the most effective methods of bitumen modification today. \u00a0It allows obtaining pavement surfacing with improved technical and operational characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first synthetic thermoplastic materials entered the market in the middle of the last century (1965). \u00a0The SBS-polymer name comes from &#8220;styrene- butadiene-styrene&#8221;. \u00a0This material has a chemical structure with elastic internal block. \u00a0This is why SBS-polymers are perfect to be mixed with bitumen. \u00a0Polybutadiene chain is formed as a result of such interaction. Characteristic<a class=\"cg-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/sbs-polymers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"language":"en","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modified.globecore.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}