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Sahadat Hossain, a UTA Civil Engineering Professor and the Director of the UTA Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, has received a $950,000 grant from the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Co-principal investigator is Karthikeyan Loganathan, an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering.
The plastic road is expected to enhance the durability and strength of highway pavement while also serving as a substitute for bitumen in asphalt pavement roads. The first plastic road execution project will take place in the Kaufman area. Hossain’s group has successfully finished a laboratory investigation into the reuse of waste plastics in asphalt over the last three years.