Experiment on Concrete by Adding Steel Fibers and Plastic Waste to Reduce Environmental Issues and Adding Strength to Concrete

Abstract

Abstract: Concrete is the most commonly used material for construction in civil engineering. The project involves the proposed concrete which is made up of adding plastic in concrete may help to reuse the plastic as one of the constituent material of concrete. Due to rapid industrialization the amount of use and decomposition of plastic has increased. If we are able to utilize this waste under proper conditions as addition to concrete it will reduce the plastic waste up to some extent. By adding the steel fibers to the above mix it will increase the compressive strength of the concrete. M40 grade concrete is used in the whole procedure. Here, we used 4 different percentages of plastic waste (i.e., 0.6%, 1.2%, 1.8%, and 2.4%) of weight of cement and by taking quantity of steel fiber as constant (i.e., 2%) of weight of cement, and the aspect ratio of steel fibers is 60. The concrete cube of size 150mm×150mm ×150mm are prepared and tested at 3days, 7days, 14days and 28 days. The resulting data has been analyzed and compared with controlled specimens.