Engineering Sciences

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Objective: Bitumen and cement are the main binding agents for construction of flexible and rigid pavement respectively. Beside binding agent, aggregate and filler is required in large quantity for construction and repair/rehabilitation of roads of roads. With a ban on quarries in various states, availability of construction material is a challenge for road construction industry. Beside this blockage of roads during this period leads to traffic jam and inconvenience to commuters. Considering all these problems associated with present roads, there is need to develop and design roads with such materials which can answer all these issues. To have roads free of distresses, there is a need to introduce new range of material for road construction in place of conventional materials. The road designed and constructed with new material should be light weight, but stronger than conventional, which can be constructed in less time with minimal maintenance and longer life span

Summary: Properly designed and manufactured polymer based articles play an invaluable role in traditional engineering areas such as suspension units, power transmission, electrical and thermal insulation and in load bearing structures such as ship hulls etc. There is wide range of natural and synthetic polymers. Synthetic polymers derive mainly from oilbased products and include polyethylene, nylon, epoxies, phenolics, synthetic rubber e.g. styrene butadiene rubber. Polymers form the basis of plastics, rubber, fibres, adhesives and paints. These polymers in solid state have wide range of moduli and capability to extrude in different shapes which has given the opportunity to researcher/designer to design new components/parts earlier use to design with conventional metals. Under this project an attempt will be made to design a prefabricated panel, out of engineered polymers, for construction of roads. An attempt will be made to use this waste plastic as base material. Further properties will be improved through R&D to develop engineered plastic out of this base material by adding some additives etc. and finally engineered plastic will be used for production of slab/panel for road construction applications and other value added products used in road system.

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