Abstract
With the development of technology in every field, it is necessary to recommend an eco-friendly material to be utilized in the construction industry. Recently, using waste/recycled materials in the concrete as a substitute is a trend to bring sustainability to the construction industry, but the recycled/waste materials has poor mechanical properties, thus to enhance these poor properties, this research studies the mechanical performance of sustainable concrete incorporating waste materials as aggregates, the study is performed in the three stages. In the first stage, the natural sand was substituted with recycled sand in the percentage of 0, 35, 70, and 100%, and all the tests i.e. compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength were performed on concrete which was cured in water for 28 days. As the 35% substitution of natural sand with recycled fine aggregate presented the optimum mechanical performance, it was selected for the third stage of the research. In the second and the third stages, the discarded carbon fibers were utilized in concrete with 2, 4, and 6% by weight. A total of 90 samples were prepared for this research, in which 30 samples were cubes, 30 samples were cylinders and 30 samples were beams, all the samples were tested at 28 days. Comparative analysis was performed to validate and verify the results of this paper with the relevant literature. The SEM test was also performed on a fractured concrete surface to study its microstructure. The outcome of tests revealed that the utilization of discarded carbon fibers in concrete enhances compressive, split tensile and flexural strength by 27.8, 17.8, and 35.9% and acts as a crack bridging and also restrain the propagation of the first cracks. Fibers also helped the concrete to improve its energy absorption capacity and ductility.
Highlights
In recent years, the development of more infrastructure projects results in more waste from demolition and construction (Mohseni et al, 2017), waste concrete
The current experimental research examines the mechanical performance of concrete with recycled aggregate, concrete with discarded carbon fibers, and concrete with both recycled aggregate and discarded carbon fibers
Results exhibit that when 100% sand was substituted with recycled fine aggregate in concrete with no fibers, the split tensile and flexural strength was reduced by 14.2 and 14.9%, respectively
Summary
The development of more infrastructure projects results in more waste from demolition and construction (Mohseni et al, 2017), waste concrete. Researchers (Ahmad Bhat, 2021) propose to utilize these construction and demolition waste to recycled waste materials to reduce the developing issue of landfills (Marinković et al, 2010). Germany (Pepe et al, 2016) is ahead of all countries by developing recycled aggregates which are nearly 70 million tons. Unique properties of fiber-reinforced polymer-based (Baena et al, 2016) materials for example high impact resistance, high strength to weight ratio, low maintenance, easy to use, corrosion resistance, and high fatigue resistance make them common material among the industry of civil engineering globally (Ahmad et al, 2021; Zaid et al, 2021a)
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