Usually, the corn cob is considered an agriculture waste. This natural and organic waste material may be used in the industry, in general, and in the building industry, in particular. The work presented in this paper was developed in order to give a contribution to the knowledge of this material, by attempting to describe and assess its macrostructure and microstructure, elementary chemical com...

Polystyrene foam (expanded and extruded polystyrene: EPS XPS, respectively) is a ubiquitous pervasive type of marine plastic whose physical properties, transport fate are distinctly different to those other common (unfoamed) types thermoplastic litter. In this study, range fragments XPS retrieved from three beaches in southwest England have been characterised by energy-dispersive X-ray fluoresc...

Plastic pollution of the natural environment is ubiquitous, and around 40% all plastic waste produced globally used in single-use products only 9% recycled. From this waste, expandable polystyrene pose a major problem because its great volume low density. To abord issue, authors proposed circular economy model for EPS post-consumer 2019 through case study with help one local manufacturer. Altho...

The creep strain resistance of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is important; thus, time-dependent properties EPS have been significant interest. This study a part the computer-aided engineering (CAE) prediction-technology development for inclination unitized loads packaged appliances applied to EPS-based cushioning systems. Creep are validated ensure finite element analysis (FEA) reliability regardi...

The present study focuses on the development and characterization of epoxy syntactic foam filled with epoxy hollow spheres (ESF/EHoS). The epoxy syntactic foam (ESF) was produced by embedding epoxy hollow spheres (EHoS) into a mixture of epoxy-hardener and 3% KOH solution. An innovative approach and simple procedure was implemented in the preparation of the EHoS where expanded polystyrene (EPS)...