Cracking defect is one of the diseases of asphalt pavement to be solved urgently, in recent years, with the continuous improvement of pavement custody requirements, maintenance of new materials, new technology, new technology constantly emerging, based on the asphalt pavement engineering of the typical Top-Down cracking and reflection cracking, both at home and abroad were reviewed on the analysis of its mechanism and treatment measures, It can provide a reference for pavement engineering maintenance researchers and technicians.

Yinyan Li, Yifei Chen, Yuwei Song. Research progress in the mechanism and treatment of asphalt pavement cracking. International Journal of Frontiers in Engineering Technology (2022), Vol. 4, Issue 9: 25-30. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFET.2022.040905.

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