Experimental development of a plastic bottle usable as a construction building block created out of polyethylene terephthalate: Testing PET(b)rick 1.0

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21450/17:00312667

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710216302765" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710216302765</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2017.05.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jobe.2017.05.015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental development of a plastic bottle usable as a construction building block created out of polyethylene terephthalate: Testing PET(b)rick 1.0

Original language description

Consumer goods PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are usually thrown away after consumption. A huge number of them ends up somewhere in the environment. In many developing countries PET bottles are used in construction, mainly as fill-in material in concrete or adobe walls. Special purpose PET bottles have been designed and produced earlier that can be stacked in wall systems. In our research we produced a special PET bottle that fulfils the following conditions: (a) produced with blow-moulding technology; (b) good stacking features to eliminate or minimize binding medium between PET bottles; and (c) produced out of recycled PET. This special PET bottle resulted in a series produced and patented brick called PET(b)rick 1.0. We subjected the PET(b)ricks to various tests as done on regular building bricks: stress, pressure, and heat-freeze. PET(b)rick has reasonable resistance to stress greatly dependent on the filling medium, low resistance to pressure, and a small bandwidth of performance in heat-freeze. We have demonstrated stable and safe application of PET(b)ricks in small seating objects. PET(b)rick does not seem suitable as a self-standing wall, but can function as easily stackable fill-in material within a load-bearing structure.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20505 - Composites (including laminates, reinforced plastics, cermets, combined natural and synthetic fibre fabrics; filled composites)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Building Engineering

ISSN

2352-7102

e-ISSN

2352-7102

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

239-247

UT code for WoS article

000406779600027

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021164851