“One word: plastics.” That’s the famous career advice from the movie The Graduate. A professor at UT Arlington must have gotten the same message, because 56 years later he’s making history by using plastics to repair and stabilize Texas roadways in the DFW area. Dr. Sahadat Hossain—a UTA civil engineering professor…
ARLINGTON, Texas — A civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington is using recycled and unrecycled plastic waste products to fill in cracks and reduce rutting in roads. Professor Sahadat Hossain received a nearly $950,000 grant from the Dallas district of TxDOT to implement the “plastic road” material…
A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering professor is using both recycled and unrecycled plastic waste products to fill in surface cracks and reduce rutting in roads—the first use of what’s called “plastic road” material in Texas. Sahadat Hossain, UTA civil engineering professor and director of the UTA Solid…