University of Texas-Arlington: Building Safer Highways With Recycled Plastic Pins
February 12, 2022
February 12, 2022
ARLINGTON, Texas, Feb. 12 (TNSOps) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release:
A civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington has received two contracts worth nearly $1.1 million from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to use recycled plastic pins (RPP) for slope stabilization and increasing the bearing capacity of highway walls.
"This technology makes the slopes more stable and reduces cost to r . . .
A civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington has received two contracts worth nearly $1.1 million from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to use recycled plastic pins (RPP) for slope stabilization and increasing the bearing capacity of highway walls.
"This technology makes the slopes more stable and reduces cost to r . . .