Recycling of plastic waste materials: Mechanical properties and implications for road construction

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dc.contributor.authorPanashe, Jennifer Alista
dc.contributor.authorDanyuo, Yiporo
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-20T15:17:34Z
dc.date.available2020-04-20T15:17:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionThis is the Accepted Manuscript version of this article which has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input by Materials Research Society or Cambridge University Press, in MRS Advances published by Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press, together with a copyright notice in the name of the copyright holder (Materials Research Society). On publication, the full bibliographical details of the article (volume: issue number (date), page numbers) will be inserted after the journal-title, together with a link to the Cambridge website address for the Journalen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a recent study on recycling poly-ethylene-tetraphylate (PET), known as plastic waste material in Ghana, to wealth. Composites were produced by heating aggregates together with shredded PET plastic waste material, while bitumen was added to the plasticcoated aggregates. The composites produced were reinforced with 4.5 wt%, 9.0 wt%, 13.6 wt%, and 18.0 wt% PET. Mechanical properties of the fabricated composite samples were studied with a Universal testing machine for optimization. The work demonstrated that shredded PET plastic waste material acts as a strong binding agent for bitumen that can improve on the shelf life of the asphalt. From the results, 13.6 wt% concentration of PET was shown to experience the maximum compressive strength and flexural strength. Besides, water resistance was shown to increase with PET concentrations/weight fraction. From the data characterized 13.6 wt% of PET plastic gives the optimum plastic concentration that enhances the rheological properties of bitumen. The implications of the result are therefore discussed for the use of 13.6 wt% PET in road construction.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAshesi Universityen_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI:10.1557/adv.2020.197
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11988/527
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMRS Advancesen_US
dc.subjectcomposite materialsen_US
dc.subjectrecycled plastic wasteen_US
dc.subjecthardnessen_US
dc.subjectbitumenen_US
dc.titleRecycling of plastic waste materials: Mechanical properties and implications for road constructionen_US
dc.typeAccepted manuscript versionen_US

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