Concretes and mortars are subjected to several kinds of shrinkage strains which represent the volumic variations resulting from the cement hydration and are governed by various physical and chemical aspects. The use of polyethylene terephthalate PET plastic wastes which are available in quantity and within low cost in our country yields a very important economic and environmental impact in the construction industry. Thus, we are interested to investigate the effect of PET volumetric additive amounts for cement substituting and for the behavior of the total, drying and autogenous shrinkage. Comparison study of obtained experimental results with codale prediction models were performed according to Eurocode 2 (EC2) in order to analyze the evolution of shrinkage strain with PET-mortar composite ages and for several rates of PET waste additions. According to obtained results, PET additions acts to reduce shrinkage strains of PET-mortar composites which promote the use of these modified mortar Eco-materials in the field of construction industry.
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In this study, numerical models based on finite element method are developed for several applications of fracture mechanics. The use of cracked specimen formed by different material properties has allowed us to analyse the effect of the crack position to the interface and to have a well understanding of mismatch effect for the case of mixed mode of fracture. In other hand, we have noticed that it is very interesting to see the effect of the interface position and loading for the case of symmetrically cracked ring specimen under compression loading.
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