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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 3624-3629Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.02.039
Keywords
Waste polypropylene; Waste ground rubber tire powder; Recycling; Mechanical properties; Uniform design; Artificial neural network-genetic algorithm
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- Office of Human Resources and Social Security of Jilin Province
- Jilin Provincial Science & Technology Department [20080515]
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Recycling represents a valid alternative to the disposal of post-consumer materials if it is possible to obtain new materials with good properties. In this work, waste polypropylene (WPP)/waste ground rubber tire (WGRT) powder blends were studied with respect to the effect of bitumen and maleic anhydride-grafted styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS-g-MA) content by using the design of experiments (DOE) approach, whereby the effect of the four polymers content on the final mechanical properties were predicted. Uniform design method was especially adopted for its advantages. Optimization was done using hybrid artificial neural network-genetic algorithm (ANN-GA) technique. The results indicated that the blends show fairly good ductibility provided that it had a relatively higher concentration of bitumen and SEBS-g-MA under the studied condition. A quantitative relationship was presented between the material concentration and the mechanical properties as a set of contour plots, which were confirmed experimentally by testing the optimum ratio. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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