Abstract: | In this paper the change of family composition of the paving asphalt, which conforms to the standard of Sinopec Q/SHR-004-1998, was studied under continuous heating and atmosphere at three different temperatures (150, 163, 180°C), at the same time, the changes of pavement performance were studied. The results showed that at three different aging temperatures saturated hydrocarbon contents did not obviously change after 20 hours on aging. The change of aromatic contents was different before and after 20 hours while resins and asphaltenes contents have changed noteworthily. After aging, resins decreased noteworthily, asphaltenes increased obviously, the composition and structure of asphalt were destroyed which had the pavement performance go bad. |