Experimental Investigation on Flexible Pavements By Means of Discarded Plastics and Mineral Admixtures

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Volume 4, Issue 3 (2023)

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May-June 2023

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476-479

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Abstract: The major problem the world is facing today is the environmental pollution. Prosopis juliflora inflorescence is small, green-yellowish spikes without any particular fragrance or attractiveness, though relished by bees. At the moment, prosopis juliflora provides approximately 75% of fuel wood needs of rural people in arid and semi-arid regions of India. These species has become naturalized and spread over the greater part of north-west, central, west and south India. Prosopis juliflora is xerophytic and is adapted to many soil types under a wide range of moisture conditions. Prosopis juliflora has been used to arrest wind erosion and stabilize sand dunes on coastal areas. The issue of environmental global warming due to global effects and expensive nature of the origin of quarries make us to switch on to the alternative sources. Lots of researches have been done to replace the, plastic, aggregate. Most of the admixtures are available in market in the form of chemical composition. But, in this project we study the effect of Prosopis Juliflora wood Ash and replace the by BITUMEN with 5%, 10% and 20%. The fine structure of prosopis juliflora ash fills more voids and provides superior pore structure and thereby improvising its strength at later stages due to reduced permeability.