Plastic is considered one of the most significant industrial inventions this era due to its excellent properties, which lend well many manufacturing applications. These days, there are tons Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) waste products that generated around world. This presents a real environmental hazard because PET not biodegradable. paper delineates physical and chemical properties justify...

Efficient disposal of composite materials recycled from wind turbine blades (WTB) at end-of-life needs to be solved urgently. To investigate the modification effects and mechanism on SBS-modified asphalt glass fiber (GF) WTB, GF-WTB/SBS composite-modified was prepared. Dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) bending beam (BBR) were adopted evaluate its performance. FTIR, SEM, EDS, AFM methods used assess...

This study presents a finite element (FE) micromechanical modelling approach for the simulation of linear and damage-coupled viscoelastic behaviour of asphalt mixture. Asphalt mixture is a composite material of graded aggregates bound with mastic (asphalt and fine aggregates). The microstructural model of asphalt mixture incorporates an equivalent lattice network structure whereby intergranular...

Using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in asphalt mixes has become a common practice in many countries as experience indicated that the recycling of asphalt pavements is very advantageous from different perspectives. Some of the advantages of utilizing RAP include conservation of asphalt and aggregate resources, conservation of energy, and reduction in life-cycle cost. In this study, the suitab...

Language: English The Challenge At the outset the asphalt paving process seems to be simple. Trucks deliver hot mix asphalt from plants to the construction site. There the asphalt is loaded on asphalt pavers that evenly spread the asphalt. Finally, compactors compact the asphalt to its required density. Despite this relatively structured process our research shows that there are significant dis...