Bitumen Loss on Heating Test
When the Bitumen is heated it loses the volatility and gets hardened. About 50gm of the sample is weighed and heated to a temperature of 1630C for 5 hours in a specified oven designed for this test. The sample specimen is weighed again after the heating period and loss in weight is expressed as percentage by weight of the original sample.
Bitumen used in pavement mixes should not indicate more than 1% loss in weight, but for bitumen having penetration values 150-200 up to 2% loss in weight is allowed.
