CORRECTION article

Front. Mater.

Sec. Structural Materials

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmats.2025.1613549

This article is part of the Research TopicAsphalt Pavement Performance under Complex Service ConditionsView all 11 articles

Corrigendum: Performance Optimization of Asphalt Pavements: Using Binder Film Thickness (BFT) as a Criterion in Innovative Mix Design Compared to Marshall and Superpave Methods

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Department of Bridge Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
  • 2Department of Transportation Engineering, H-12 Campus, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 3Department of Civil Engineering NFC IEFR (Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research), Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 4Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 5Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil, Agricultural & Mining Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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Incorrect Funding In the published article, there was an error in the Funding statement. [The research is partially funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as part of the World-class Research Center program: Advanced Digital Technologies (contract No. 075-15-2022-311 dated 20.04.2022)]. The correct Funding statement appears below.FUNDINGThis research was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation No. 22-79-10021, https://rscf.ru/project/22-79-10021/.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

Keywords: Marshall mix design, Superpave Gyratory Compacted Mix Design, Binder film thickness, Optimum binder content, asphalt content

Received: 17 Apr 2025; Accepted: 18 Apr 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Khan, Khan, Nasir, Khan, Sabri, Ahmad and Qamar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Muhammad Salman Khan, Department of Transportation Engineering, H-12 Campus, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
Mahmood Ahmad, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil, Agricultural & Mining Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Peshawar, 25000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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