Title:	The feasibility of recycled micro polyethylene terephthalate (PET) replacing natural sand in hot-mix asphalt
Authors:	Ferreira, José Wilson dos Santos Marroquin, John Fredy Ricardo Felix, Jorlandio Francisco Farias, Marcio Muniz Casagrande, Michéle Dal Toé
Assunto::	Plástico reciclado Asfalto - concreto Microplástico Sustentabilidade
Issue Date:	2022
Publisher:	Elsevier Ltd.
Citation:	FERREIRA, José Wilson dos Santos et al. The feasibility of recycled micro polyethylene terephthalate (PET) replacing natural sand in hot-mix asphalt. Construction and Building Materials, v. 330, 127276, 2 maio 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.127276.
Abstract:	Microplastic pollution is contaminating the human food chain worldwide. At the same time, construction excessively exploits natural sand, requiring the incorporation of alternative materials to achieve sustainable development. From this scenario, the study evaluates the potential of recycled micro-PET replacing natural sand on hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mechanical behavior by weight and volume. The materials’ characterization occurred via XDR, XRF, TGA/DTG, FTIR, SEM, and AFM tests. The Superpave mix design, X-ray micro-tomography (μ-CT), indirect tensile strength (ITS), resilient modulus (RM), and moisture damage tests were performed in conventional and PET-incorporated mixtures, considering 2% (in wt.), 4% (in wt.), and 8% (in wt. and vol.) substitutions. The 8% PET replacing sand by volume showed no significant change in the mixture’s optimum asphalt content (OAC) due to the binder absorption equivalence between the materials’ surfaces. For the same binder content, the increase in PET content in weight decreased the binder film thickness and increased the volume of voids, visualized as non-permeable micropores in μ-CT. Although adding and incrementing PET reduced the mixtures’ ITS and RM values, its most significant contribution was enhancing the resistance to moisture damage, especially for regions where the pavement deterioration process is associated with an intensive rainfall regime, thus demonstrating this application’s practical feasibility in concrete asphalt paving.
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.127276
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