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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 239036, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/239036
Research Article

Investigations of Physical and Rheological Properties of Aged Rubberised Bitumen

Asim Hassan Ali, Nuha S. Mashaan, and Mohamed Rehan Karim

Center for Transportation Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Received 27 August 2012; Accepted 15 January 2013

Academic Editor: Dachamir Hotza

Copyright © 2013 Asim Hassan Ali et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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