aggregate.

By comparing to control mixture, no significant changes are observed for

mixtures containing up to 10% of PET-aggregates and up to 20% of polycarbonate (PC)

aggregates. According to the authors, a decrease of 9.5% and 17.9% for mixtures with,

respectively, 20% and 50% of PET-aggregates is observed. For mixtures with 50% of PCaggregates, a
decrease of 32.8% is measured. The authors found that the calculated flexural

toughness factors increase significantly with increasing volume fraction of PET and PCaggregates. Thus,
addition of PC and PET plastic aggregates in cementitious materials can

give a good energy absorbing material which is very interesting for several civil

engineering applications like structures subjected to dynamic or impact.

Frigione (2010) founds lower values of splitting tensile strength in concrete containing

PET aggregate prepared using high w/c value than in a similar mix prepared at low w/c

value.By replacing 5% by weight of fine aggregate (natural sand) with an equal weight of

PET aggregates manufactured from the waste un-washed PET bottles. Specimens with

different cement content and water/cement ratio were manufactured.

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Kou et al. (2009) investigated the fresh and hardened properties of lightweight aggregate

concretes that are prepared with the use of recycled plastic waste sourced from scraped

PVC pipes to replace river sand as fine aggregates. Concrete mixes were tested, in which

river sand was partially replaced by PVC plastic waste granules in percentages of 0%,

5%, 15%, 30% and 45% by volume. Splitting tensile strength 28-day values are 3.06,

2.89, 2.82, 2.58 and 1.83 MPa, respectively.

Akçaözoglu et al. (2010) carried out a study of using shredded waste PET bottles as

aggregate in lightweight concrete. Investigation was carried out on two groups of mortar

samples, one made with only PET aggregates and, second made with PET and sand

aggregates together. The authors found average values of flexural strength similar to

those of normal weight mortar.

Rahmani et al. (2013) investigated the effects of replacing 5%, 10% and 15% substitution

of sand with PET processed particles. To determine the effect of the percentage of sand
replacement with PET on concrete flexural strength, some beam specimens with

dimensions of 50 × 10 × 10 cm3were casted.