We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Lightweight gypsum composite with plastic waste incorporation for building construction applications.
- Authors
Paunescu, Bogdan Valentin; Volceanov, Enikö; Dragoescu, Marius Florin; Paunescu, Lucian
- Abstract
Aiming at making lightweight gypsum-based composite whose mechanical strength to be acceptably high, the current work tested the combined use of some recycled plastic waste (polyethylene terephthalate-PET, polypropylene, and expanded polystyrene) as well as silica fume, a very fine powder as by-product in metallurgical industry, having the ability to improve the composite mechanical properties. The optimal combination of fillers included PET (1 wt. %) and polypropylene (1 wt. %) whose fibrous structure influenced the decrease of bulk density up to 540 kgꞏm-3 as well as especially the increase of flexural strength up to 4 MPa.
- Subjects
GYPSUM; BUILDING design &; construction; WASTE recycling; PLASTIC scrap recycling; SILICA fume; FLEXURAL strength; PLASTIC scrap; ALUMINUM powder
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Civil Engineering / Revista Română de Inginerie Civilă, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 3, p278
- ISSN
2068-3987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37789/rjce.2024.15.3.8