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Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier

Road accident is a major problem in the country and should be dealt with an effective ways. Road furniture is one of the factors that contributing an accidents than other factors. Therefore, this study focuses on waste material such as recycle plastic bottle that potential to be used as a road barri...

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Main Authors:	Ambak, Kamarudin, Hadipramana, Josef, Abas, Nurul Aimi, Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza, Jaini, Zainorizuan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UTHM 2018
Subjects:	T Technology (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements
Online Access:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/1/AJ%202018%20%2866%29.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/ https://doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2018.10.04.024
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spelling	my.uthm.eprints.42932021-12-02T02:27:15Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/ Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier Ambak, Kamarudin Hadipramana, Josef Abas, Nurul Aimi Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza Jaini, Zainorizuan T Technology (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements Road accident is a major problem in the country and should be dealt with an effective ways. Road furniture is one of the factors that contributing an accidents than other factors. Therefore, this study focuses on waste material such as recycle plastic bottle that potential to be used as a road barrier and crash cushion. The objective of this study are to investigate the potential of plastic bottles filled with sand as crash cushion, examine the impact strength of plastic bottles and designing crash cushion by using recycled materials. Some plastic bottles of soft drinks containing ordinary sand was prepared and undergone experimental and simulation works. Free fall Impact test that imposed on the plastic bottles has been carried out to identify the strength and its energy absorption. The numerical simulation of impact test was conducted using Finite Element Method to obtain impact failure and to observe its details response under low velocity impact loads. The numerical results by employing FEM well agreed with practical works. Where, the absorption of energy from the impact test shows that the difference does not exceed 50%. In addition, the deformation of both test are almost similar. Therefore, the use of recycled materials such as plastic bottles filled with sand as crash cushions that can be considered as alternative and environmentally friendly materials. Penerbit UTHM 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/1/AJ%202018%20%2866%29.pdf Ambak, Kamarudin and Hadipramana, Josef and Abas, Nurul Aimi and Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza and Jaini, Zainorizuan (2018) Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, 10 (4). pp. 151-155. ISSN 2229-838X https://doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2018.10.04.024
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topic	T Technology (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements
spellingShingle	T Technology (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements Ambak, Kamarudin Hadipramana, Josef Abas, Nurul Aimi Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza Jaini, Zainorizuan Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
description	Road accident is a major problem in the country and should be dealt with an effective ways. Road furniture is one of the factors that contributing an accidents than other factors. Therefore, this study focuses on waste material such as recycle plastic bottle that potential to be used as a road barrier and crash cushion. The objective of this study are to investigate the potential of plastic bottles filled with sand as crash cushion, examine the impact strength of plastic bottles and designing crash cushion by using recycled materials. Some plastic bottles of soft drinks containing ordinary sand was prepared and undergone experimental and simulation works. Free fall Impact test that imposed on the plastic bottles has been carried out to identify the strength and its energy absorption. The numerical simulation of impact test was conducted using Finite Element Method to obtain impact failure and to observe its details response under low velocity impact loads. The numerical results by employing FEM well agreed with practical works. Where, the absorption of energy from the impact test shows that the difference does not exceed 50%. In addition, the deformation of both test are almost similar. Therefore, the use of recycled materials such as plastic bottles filled with sand as crash cushions that can be considered as alternative and environmentally friendly materials.
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author	Ambak, Kamarudin Hadipramana, Josef Abas, Nurul Aimi Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza Jaini, Zainorizuan
author_facet	Ambak, Kamarudin Hadipramana, Josef Abas, Nurul Aimi Mokhatar, Shahrul Niza Jaini, Zainorizuan
author_sort	Ambak, Kamarudin
title	Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
title_short	Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
title_full	Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
title_fullStr	Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
title_full_unstemmed	Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
title_sort	investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier
publisher	Penerbit UTHM
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/1/AJ%202018%20%2866%29.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4293/ https://doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2018.10.04.024
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Investigation on potential of recycle plastic bottles as a crash cushion for road barrier

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