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http://dx.doi.org/10.14478/ace.2015.1051

Design of MMA-Type Thermosetting Road Markings to Improve Reflectivity  

Lee, Seung Bum (Department of Chemical Engineering, Dankook University)
Lee, Chang Geun (Department of Chemical Engineering, Dankook University)
Hong, In Kwon (Department of Chemical Engineering, Dankook University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.26, no.4, 2015 , pp. 439-444 More about this Journal
Abstract
Several attempts to design the best-available thermosetting road markings by using MMA to improve the durability and retroreflectivity are presented in this paper. In order to improve field applicability, the components of main materials were designed by means of reducing the hardening time lower than eight minutes. The optimum mixing ratio of thermosetting road marking was TSRM-6 composed of 15.6 wt% of MMA monomer ($Tg=105^{\circ}C$), 6.0 wt% of PMMA (MW = 70,000, $Tg=60^{\circ}C$) and 1.2 wt% of TMPTA (MW = 338, $Tg=27^{\circ}C$). Also the homogeneous mixing of all components was necessary. The use of ceramic glass beads with an optimized TSRM-6 exhibited excellent performance by achieving retroreflectivity coefficients of 431, 354 and $172mcd{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}lux^{-1}$ for dry, wet and rainy test condition, respectively at two hundred thousand cycles.
Keywords
thermosetting road markings; hardening time; retroreflectivity; durability;
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