Utilisation of waste plastic in bituminous mix for improved performance of roads

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Utilisation of waste plastic in bituminous mix for improved performance of roads

Jafar, Jalal J.

The use of waste plastic as a partial aggregate replacement in bituminous mix products often suffers from weak bonding between the plastic surface and the bitumen. This work reports on the use of plastic waste and chemical additives in order to improve the performance of the volumetric and mechanical properties of bituminous mixtures. The selected recycled waste plastics were used as partial aggregate replacement in bituminous mix product. The plastics were treated using a strong oxidising mixture of dichromate and sulphuric acid while the bitumen was treated with a cross linking agent, polyethyleneimine. Three modified bituminous mixtures were prepared and the stiffness results (from Retained Stiffness after Water Immersion Test) were compared with the control bituminous mixture. Over the ten measurement cycles it was observed that the stiffness increased by 10% for the chemically modified bituminous mixtures. This improvement is attributed to an increase in the bonding forces between the aggregates and the bitumen. Furthermore, a mechanism is proposed in order to explain the effect of the chemical additives on the increase in the stiffness of the bituminous mixture.