Research on Temperature Stability of Asphalt Based on Improved Softening Point Test

Abstract The softening point is one of the important indexes used to evaluate the high-temperature performance of asphalt. However, some modified asphalt softening points show irregular changes before and after aging, and the correlation with other high-temperature indexes is not high, which has been a concern for researchers. To this end, this work takes styrene-butadiene-styrene–modified asphalt as the research object and long- and short-term aging as the condition, through the improvement of softening point test and combined with the temperature-sensitive correlation, differential scanning calorimetry, and dynamic shear rheology tests, to explore the significance of improving the softening point test–related indicators to provide new ideas for the asphalt performance evaluation system.