IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v11y2019i8p2200-d222183.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Mechanical-Damage Behavior of Mortars Reinforced with Recycled Polypropylene Fibers

Author

Listed:
  • Gerardo Araya-Letelier

    (Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

  • Pablo Maturana

    (Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

  • Miguel Carrasco

    (Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Avenida Diagonal Las Torres 2640, Peñalolén, Santiago 7941169, Chile)

  • Federico Carlos Antico

    (Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Avenida Padre Hurtado 750, Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar 2581907, Chile)

  • María Soledad Gómez

    (Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

Abstract

Commercial polypropylene fibers are incorporated as reinforcement of cement-based materials to improve their mechanical and damage performances related to properties such as tensile and flexural strength, toughness, spalling and impact resistance, delay formation of cracks and reducing crack widths. Yet, the production of these polypropylene fibers generates economic costs and environmental impacts and, therefore, the use of alternative and more sustainable fibers has become more popular in the research materials community. This paper addresses the characterization of recycled polypropylene fibers (RPFs) obtained from discarded domestic plastic sweeps, whose morphological, physical and mechanical properties are provided in order to assess their implementation as fiber-reinforcement in cement-based mortars. An experimental program addressing the incorporation of RPFs on the mechanical-damage performance of mortars, including a sensitivity analysis on the volumes and lengths of fiber, is developed. Using analysis of variance, this paper shows that RPFs statistically enhance flexural toughness and impact strength for high dosages and long fiber lengths. On the contrary, the latter properties are not statistically modified by the incorporation of low dosages and short lengths of RPFs, but still in these cases the incorporation of RPFs in mortars have the positive environmental impact of waste encapsulation. In the case of average compressive and flexural strength of mortars, these properties are not statistically modified when adding RPFs.

Suggested Citation

  • Gerardo Araya-Letelier & Pablo Maturana & Miguel Carrasco & Federico Carlos Antico & María Soledad Gómez, 2019. "Mechanical-Damage Behavior of Mortars Reinforced with Recycled Polypropylene Fibers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-17, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:8:p:2200-:d:222183
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/8/2200/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/8/2200/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ying Zhou & Yi Xiao & Anqi Gu & Zheng Lu, 2018. "Dispersion, Workability and Mechanical Properties of Different Steel-Microfiber-Reinforced Concretes with Low Fiber Content," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-17, July.
    2. Chang-Seon Shon & Temirlan Mukashev & Deuckhang Lee & Dichuan Zhang & Jong R. Kim, 2019. "Can Common Reed Fiber Become an Effective Construction Material? Physical, Mechanical, and Thermal Properties of Mortar Mixture Containing Common Reed Fiber," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-19, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Azim Baibagyssov & Niels Thevs & Sabir Nurtazin & Rainer Waldhardt & Volker Beckmann & Ruslan Salmurzauly, 2020. "Biomass Resources of Phragmites australis in Kazakhstan: Historical Developments, Utilization, and Prospects," Resources, MDPI, vol. 9(6), pages 1-25, June.
    2. Rosa Caponetto & Massimo Cuomo & Maurizio Detommaso & Giada Giuffrida & Antonio Lo Presti & Francesco Nocera, 2023. "Performance Assessment of Giant Reed-Based Building Components," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-18, January.
    3. Alana Silva & Florindo Gaspar & Aliaksandr Bakatovich, 2023. "Composite Materials of Rice Husk and Reed Fibers for Thermal Insulation Plates Using Sodium Silicate as a Binder," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-20, July.
    4. Viktor Gribniak & Pui-Lam Ng & Vytautas Tamulenas & Ieva Misiūnaitė & Arnoldas Norkus & Antanas Šapalas, 2019. "Strengthening of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Elements: Synergy of the Fibres and External Sheet," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(16), pages 1-13, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:11:y:2019:i:8:p:2200-:d:222183. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.