Recycle for Polymers. Polymeric Materials Premised for Recycled Use.

Toughness Performance of Recycled Aggregates for use in Road Pavement

The policy of driving organization such as Highways Agency is towards the use of performance related specifications. This policy and adoption of European wide aggregate standards on the one hand, and sustainable construction pressures on the other, all strongly emphasize on further need for more developments to specifications and performance assessment methodologies inst...

Polymers used for bone reconstruction – evaluation of chosen polymeric materials for in vitro culture of osteoblasts

Use of polymers for cement-based structural materials

Cement-based materials are widely used in the civil infrastructure. Polymers as admixtures can improve the properties, particularly in relation to water absorption reduction, toughness enhancement, vibration damping and increase of the bond strength of cement to reinforcements. Polymeric admixtures include particles, short fibers and organic liquids. Latex in the form of an aqueous particle dis...

Bitumens Modified with Recycled Polymers

Increasing traffic loading and volumes on roads has led to the use of polymer modified binders to improve the performance of bitumen in terms of additional strength, durability and increased resistance to rutting and fatigue cracking. Generally those modifiers currently in use are virgin polymers but the research investigate the possibility of using waste polymers instead. The aim was to find a...

Fiber reinforced plastic composites using recycled materials

This work investigates the feasibility of using recycled high density polyethylene (rHDPE), recycled polypropylene (rPP) and old newsprint fiber (ONP) to manufacture fiber reinforced composites. The boards were made through air-forming and hot press. The effects of the fiber loading and coupling agent content on tensile, flexural, internal bond properties and water absorption and thickness swel...