Eco-Friendly PCC Road Construction

Eco-Friendly PCC Road Construction

Author Name : Saurabh Soni, Vishal Kumar

During the road construction environment pollution is the major problem in all over the world, to avoid the environmental impact on the humans and animals or on the nature eco-friendly construction of the roadway or highway is necessary. Reuse of waste polymers is considered an attractive solution for environmental white pollution and reducing of the costs of road pavement and maintenance. This research aims to prepare environmentally friendly hot mix asphalt (HMA) for paving using some industrial wastes as polypropylene and polyester fibres. The solid materials in the mix include normal and highly porous aggregates. 5% and 10% of waste polymers by weight of the asphalt were used to prepare special binders. The samples were tested for their physical properties, chemical properties, aging, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA). The results revealed that the prepared HMA using 5% of waste polymer had high performance as compared to the ordinary one and the waste polymer could be used in road construction