Effect of Waste Plastic and Waste Tires Ash on Mechanical Behavior of Bitumen
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 28, Issue 6
Abstract
This paper deals with the utilization of waste plastic and waste tire rubber with bitumen for construction of low-budget roads instead of conventional polymer modified bitumen (PMB) due to its high price value. Economic growth and changing consumption and production patterns are resulting in rapid increases in the generation of various wastes, such as plastic waste, waste tires of truck and buses, etc., which pollute the urbanized civilization. Among such polymeric wastes only those containing high-molecular—high-density polyethylene (HM-HDPE), polypropylene (PP), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), and tire rubber ash (TRA) are used in this investigation to modify the properties of conventional bitumen. The results of experiment indicate that addition of 1% by weight of mixed plastic (MP) to the hot pen grade bitumen provides the enhancement in the temperature susceptibility resistant characteristics, viscous properties, and elastic recovery properties with good compatibility and cohesiveness at the micro level by satisfying the essential criterion of PMB 40.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are very much thankful to Public Works Department, Amta Sub-division of Howrah in West Bengal (India).
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Volume 28 • Issue 6 • June 2016
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Received: Nov 17, 2014
Accepted: Sep 11, 2015
Published online: Jan 5, 2016
Published in print: Jun 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Jun 5, 2016
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