Qu, XinWang, DaweiWang, LinbingHuang, YuchengHou, YueOeser, Markus2018-09-102018-09-102018-09-03Xin Qu, Dawei Wang, Linbing Wang, Yucheng Huang, Yue Hou, and Markus Oeser, “The State-of-the-Art Review on Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Asphalt Binder,” Advances in Civil Engineering, vol. 2018, Article ID 4546191, 14 pages, 2018. doi:10.1155/2018/4546191http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84983Asphalt pavement has been widely used in the world. As the main components of asphalt pavement, the asphalt binder is crucial to the service performance and life of the road. In the past decades, numerous studies were conducted on technical performance, aging, and modification of the asphalt binder. With the development of modern technology, it was discovered that the microscopic properties, aging mechanism, and modification mechanism of the asphalt binder affect the macroscopic performance of asphalt pavement significantly. As a new emerging powerful numerical tool, the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been developed to study the asphalt binder material from a micro perspective. Based on the previous studies, some average asphalt binder models, fractional asphalt binder models, aged asphalt binder models, and modifier models were proposed by many researchers, which have made remarkable progress in asphalt studies; the microproperties, aging mechanism, and modification mechanism of the asphalt binder can also be analyzed using the MD simulation. Overall, the state-of-the-art review provides a comprehensive view for the readers to better understand the development, establishment, and application of the asphalt molecular model.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereed2018-09-09Copyright © 2018 Xin Qu 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.https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4546191