Felix Edmundo Perez Jimenez
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)

Rodrigo Miró Recasens
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)

Adriana Haydee Martinez
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)

Jesus Alonso Speck
Querétar Autonomous University (Mexico)

Jorge Cepeda Aldape
Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico)

Margarita Rodriguez Cambeiro
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

ABSTRACT
The work presented here, awarded the International Award for Innovation in Highway Juan Antonio Fernández del Campo, in his 1ª Edition (2005) is the result of a long and painstaking research on one of the modes frequently deterioration in the firm flexible in their decision fatigue cracking. This research has led to the implementation of a new tensile test and the development of a simple procedure to evaluate the fatigue behavior of a bituminous mixture from obtaining their fracture energy and strength.

Keywords
Bituminous mixtures, fatigue, toughness, tensile test, critical strain.