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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Evaluation of Mechanical and Durability Performance of Concrete with and Without Surface-Treated Plastic Fine Aggregates.

Siva Ikkurthi, Qingli Dai

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Siva IkkurthiCivil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 6 Houghton, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-7192-2504
Qingli DaiCivil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 6 Houghton, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7760-8012

Funding

Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 25*4496
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global plastic waste generation and excessive sand extraction are major environmental challenges, but replacing fine aggregate with plastic waste often degrades concrete performance. This work characterizes concrete incorporating recycled HDPE and PET fine aggregates at a 10% volumetric replacement level, with and without polymer-specific surface treatment, across fresh, mechanical, and durability properties. Untreated plastic aggregate generally lowered mechanical performance due to low polymer stiffness, weak plastic-paste bonding, and greater interfacial void formation. Surface treatment partially offsets these effects by strengthening the plastic-paste bond. H

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drying shrinkagefreeze–thawHDPE and PETplastic aggregate concreteplastic waste materialssurface treatment

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PMID42738039
PMCPMC13566848

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