Research Article

New Mortar Mixes with Chemically Depolymerized Waste PET Aggregates

Table 4

Results of flexural and compressive strength of cementitious pastes with different weight additions of DPET.

Cement pasteSand typeDPET (%)Flexural strength Rf (N/mm2)Compressive strength Rc (N/mm2)

1Normalized10.02 ± 0.5351.97 ± 1.32
2Normalized308.80 ± 0.2542.06 ± 1.02
3Unnormalized6.87 ± 0.4847.91 ± 0.89
4Unnormalized207.79 ± 0.5035.82 ± 1.06
5Unnormalized406.77 ± 0.4725.60 ± 0.89
6Unnormalized604.36 ± 0.3118.78 ± 0.60
7Unnormalized803.32 ± 0.3216.27 ± 0.95