By Prof Dinesh Desai Head, plastics Technology, L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad at 31st National Convention of Civil Engineers organised by Gujarat State Center, The Institution of Engineers (India) at Ahmedabad

1. PROF DINESH DESAI
HEAD, PLASTICS
TECHNOLOGY
L D COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
AHMEDABAD 380015
E-MAIL
dinesh_desai2002@
yahoo.co.in
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2. --WHY THIS PRESENTATION???? -
1. THIS IS THE ERA OF
INTERDECIPLINARY INFORMATION.
THUS,HERE THE INFORMATION
GATHERED AND THE PRESENTATION
MADE ARE MEANT TO BRING
AWAIRNESS IN THE COMBIND FIELD OF
CIVIL ENGG AND SAFETY ENGG,
DIRECTLY & INDIRECTLY.
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4.  Road / Street furniture is a collective term
(used mainly for)
 objects and pieces of equipment installed on
streets and roads for various purposes. It includes
benches, traffic barriers, bollards, post boxes,
phone boxes, streetlamps, traffic lights, traffic
signs, bus stops, tram stops, taxi stands, public
lavatories, fountains, watering troughs,
memorials, public sculptures, and waste
receptacles.
 An important consideration in the design of street
furniture is how it affects road safety.
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Plastics
A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or
semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics
are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass,
but they often contain other substances. They are usually
synthetic, most commonly derived from petrochemicals,
but many are partially natural

6. Recycling
 Most of the plastics are thermoplastics and they can
be easily re-melted and reused, and thermoset
plastics can be ground up and used as filler, although
the purity of the material tends to degrade with
each reuse cycle.
 Thus in many ways it saves nature,
trees, forest, water, electricity,
manpower, and money
 Applicable Even in CIVIL
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7. `ROLE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
1. ON / OVER THE ROAD
2. UNDER THE ROAD
AND YOU WILL BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT
AMOUT OF PLASTICS USED UNDER THE ROAD ARE
MUCH MORE IN DISTANCE THAT COVERS OVER
THE ROAD.
BUT HERE WE WILL BE COVERING THE PLASTICS
USED FOR SAFETY ON / OVER THE ROAD ONLY.
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9. General Descriptions of main items in
Road Furniture:-
Major Division
Bench Bollards
Post Boxes Telephone booths
Streetlamps Traffic lights
Traffic signs Public lavatories
Fire Hydrants water container
Emergency Telephone Box
Street Curb stones
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10. But here is a big list for Street
furniture:- Minor Division
A Advertising column
B Beach furniture, Bench (furniture), Bicycle
stand, Billboard, Bollard, Boom barrier,
Boundary marker, Bus bulb Bus stop
C Callbox, Cigarette receptacles, Clever
Bins,
Coal hole, Collection Plate, (Postal)
Comparison of European road signs, Curb cut
E Emergency telephone
F Fingerpost, Fire hydrant, Four-quadrant
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11.  L Lamp box, Letter box, Ludlow wall box
 M Manhole, Manhole cover, Milestone
Mojave phone booth
 P Park furniture, Parking meter, Park-let Parting
stone, Pay and display, Pay-by-plate parking,
Payphone, Pillar box, Playground slide
Police box, Portable toilet, Portuguese ,pavement, Post
box
 R Red light camera, Red telephone box
Regulatory sign, Road signs in the United States,
Roadblock
 S Serving area interface, Sewer gas destructor lamp
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12. S Sidewalk, Stamp vending machine Stanchion cover, Stobie
pole, Street clock Street light, Street sign
 T Taxicab stand,Telco can,Telephone boothTown sign,
Traffic barrier, Traffic calming Traffic counter,Traffic
reinforcement camera ,Traffic light,Traffic Light tree,
Traffic sign
 U Utility pole
 V Village sign,Vinyl strapping
 W Wall boxWallace fountain,Waste container , Worboys
Committee- signals
 Z Zero Kilometers Stone (Budapest), Zero Milestone
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13. Let us see few of
them
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17. THOUGHTHETAPE SEEMSTO
BE AVERY SMALL ITEM,
YOUWILL BE SURPRISETO
KNOWTHATTHEVARIETY OF
TAPE USED FOR ROAD
FURNITURE SURPASSES ALL
OTHER ITEMS
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18. AND AGAIN YOU WILL BE
SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT
AMOUT OF PLASTICS
TAPES USED UNDER THE
ROAD ARE 7 TO 10
TIMES MORE THAN THE
DISTANCE THAT COVERS
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29. Rubber Speed Breaker
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34. Stiffness
It's in the filaments.....Gives:-
Super Strength and Incredible
Stiffness.
Fiberglass filaments have the
highest specific tensile, flexural and
compressive strength of any
material.
Fiberglass poles are twice as
strong as a steel pole.
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Strength
Stiffness
Corrosion Resistance
Durability
Low Costs
Colors & Finishes
Direct Embedded
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90. Benefits and features of using Plastics
 Its interlocking system allows for fast and
efficient installation with minimal disruption
and no dust.
 This is made from 100% recycled post
consumer or post industrial PVC.
 It can be re-used before being returned for
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91.  In addition to doors and windows it can also incorporate
lighting, data and power cables via clip-in containments
minimising health and safety hazards.
 Incorporates Multimedia screens or simple poster frame
advertising.
 Panels can be coloured to suit your corporate style and
come with a smooth, hygienic customer facing surface
making it easy to wash clean and maintain.
 Its bespoke design software allows customers to use
their own plans to scale and place partitioning as well as
allowing online costing and ordering.
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