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Title: Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete

Abstract

An attempt to substitute in concrete the 5% by weight of fine aggregate (natural sand) with an equal weight of PET aggregates manufactured from the waste un-washed PET bottles (WPET), is presented. The WPET particles possessed a granulometry similar to that of the substituted sand. Specimens with different cement content and water/cement ratio were manufactured. Rheological characterization on fresh concrete and mechanical tests at the ages of 28 and 365 days were performed on the WPET/concretes as well as on reference concretes containing only natural fine aggregate in order to investigate the influence of the substitution of WPET to the fine aggregate in concrete. It was found that the WPET concretes display similar workability characteristics, compressive strength and splitting tensile strength slightly lower that the reference concrete and a moderately higher ductility.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce (Italy)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21357675
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Waste Management
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.030; PII: S0956-053X(10)00073-5; Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Journal ID: ISSN 0956-053X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CEMENTS; COMPRESSION STRENGTH; CONCRETES; DUCTILITY; MECHANICAL TESTS; ORGANIC WASTES; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; SAND; WATER; BUILDING MATERIALS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PETROCHEMICALS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TESTING; WASTES

Citation Formats

Frigione, Mariaenrica. Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.030.
Frigione, Mariaenrica. Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.030
Frigione, Mariaenrica. 2010. "Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.030.
@article{osti_21357675,
title = {Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete},
author = {Frigione, Mariaenrica},
abstractNote = {An attempt to substitute in concrete the 5% by weight of fine aggregate (natural sand) with an equal weight of PET aggregates manufactured from the waste un-washed PET bottles (WPET), is presented. The WPET particles possessed a granulometry similar to that of the substituted sand. Specimens with different cement content and water/cement ratio were manufactured. Rheological characterization on fresh concrete and mechanical tests at the ages of 28 and 365 days were performed on the WPET/concretes as well as on reference concretes containing only natural fine aggregate in order to investigate the influence of the substitution of WPET to the fine aggregate in concrete. It was found that the WPET concretes display similar workability characteristics, compressive strength and splitting tensile strength slightly lower that the reference concrete and a moderately higher ductility.},
doi = {10.1016/j.wasman.2010.01.030},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21357675}, journal = {Waste Management},
issn = {0956-053X},
number = 6,
volume = 30,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
}