Construction of Paver Blocks From Waste Materials
Construction of Paver Blocks From Waste Materials
Construction of Paver Blocks From Waste Materials
R.JAYASANKAR¹
2,3,4,5 FINAL YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING
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HEAD OF DEPARTMENT FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING
MANNAMPANDAL
MAYILADUTHURAI-609001
the environment. It takes 20 – 1000 years remains uncollected. In India the plastic
based on their composition. The average waste are majorly disposed by burning and
plastic waste produced in India per year is only less amount of plastic waste is recycled
15432 tonnes among which 6000 tonnes
3. Red Oxide(ferric oxide) to the paver blocks. They are red, odourless
Iron (III) oxide or ferric oxide is the and their density is 5.26 g/cm3. their melting
inorganic point is also at 2851 degrees Fahrenheit.
compound with the formula Fe2O3. It is one
of the three main oxides of iron, the other CONTROL MIX DESIGN
two being iron (II) oxide (FeO), which is
rare, and iron (II, III) oxide (Fe3O4), which In order to find the plastic soil blocks
that they possess high compressive strength
also occurs naturally as the mineral
with various mix proportions are made and
magnetite. As the mineral known as they are tested using compressive testing
hematite, Fe2O3 is the main source of iron machine. The mix proportion were in the
for the steel industry. Fe2O3 is ratio of (1:2,
ferromagnetic, dark red, and readily attacked 1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1:6)
by acids. Iron (III) oxide is often called rust,
and to some extent this label is useful, These are the ratio which represent the
plastic, river sand respectively.
because rust shares several properties and
has a similar composition. To a chemist, rust In first step we should collect the
is considered an ill-defined material, waste plastic bags and the polyethylene bags
described as hydrated ferric oxide. are sorted out and remaining are disposed
safely.
Next the collected waste bags are cleaned
with
water and dried to remove the water present
in it after this the plastics are burned out by
using stones and firewood.
Generally five specimens of blocks are taken In this test, paver blocks are weighed in
to laboratory for testing and tested one by dry condition and let them immersed in
one. In this test a paver block specimen is fresh water for 24 hours. After 24 hours of
put on crushing machine and applied immersion, those are taken out from water
pressure till it breaks. The ultimate pressure
and wipe out with cloth.
at which block is crushed is taken into
account. All five paver block specimens are Then paver block is weighed in wet
tested one by one and average result is taken
as paver block’s compressive strength. condition. the difference between weights is
the water absorbed by the paver block. the
The plastic sand paver blocks of different percentage of water absorption is then
ratios are tested one by one and in this the calculated.
high compression.
The less water absorbed by the paver block
the greater its quality. Good quality paver
block doesn’t absorb more than 5% of its
own weight.
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Reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases
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etc.,
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