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Mechanical Performance of Concrete Made with the Addition of Recycled Macro Plastic Fibres
- Source :
- Applied Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 21, Applied Sciences 11(21), 9862 (2021), Helvia. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Córdoba, instname, Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 9862, p 9862 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- For many decades, researchers have been working on finding innovative and sustainable solutions to address the enormous quantities of plastic waste that are produced every year which, after being collected, are transformed into energy, recycled, or sent to landfills. Giving a second life to plastic waste as a material to be incorporated, in the form of macro-fibres, into concrete, could be one such solution. The purpose of this study was to analyse the mechanical and physical behaviour of the hardened concrete reinforced with macro plastic fibres (RPFs) obtained from food packaging waste (FPW) discarded during the packaging phase. By varying the quantity of macro-fibres used, physical and mechanical properties such as compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, flexural strength, and toughness were evaluated. It was observed that, although the presence of macro plastic fibres reduced the mechanical resistance capacity compared to that of traditional concrete, their contribution proved to be of some importance in terms of toughness, bringing an improvement in the post-crack resistance of the composite material. This innovative mixture provides a further impulse to the circular economy.
- Subjects :
- Technology
Toughness
Materials science
Circular economy
QH301-705.5
QC1-999
Young's modulus
Mechanical properties
mechanical properties
physical properties
symbols.namesake
Flexural strength
Recycled macro plastic fibres
General Materials Science
Biology (General)
Macro
Composite material
QD1-999
Instrumentation
Physical behaviour
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Physical properties
Physics
Process Chemistry and Technology
circular economy
General Engineering
toughness
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Computer Science Applications
Food packaging
recycled macro plastic fibres
Chemistry
Compressive strength
symbols
TA1-2040
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20763417
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....32efdd55eb7f8b7be5d1f8037d035e10
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/app11219862