Study on Experimental Behavior of Plastic Based Fiber as Secondary Reinforcement in Concrete Pavement

Abstract

Abstract: Nowadays, the use of fibers of various materials such as polyethylene, polyester and polymer in concrete has increased extensively as reinforcement supplement material for production of high strength concrete. The incorporation of these material in concrete not only helps in improvement of desired properties of concrete but also helps in the mitigation of disposal issue of such non-biodegradable substances. Various such materials like plastics, different grades of single use polyethylene and rubber tyres cause environmental pollution which leads to environmental and health problems. Many of these can be used as supplement to reinforce the concrete such as PET and polyethylene in fibre form. In this paper the author has studied the effect of addition of mix of different proportion of polyethylene fibre (milk packet), PET (plastic bottle) and Recron 3S as replacement of fine aggregate on concrete properties such as compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile strength, workability. The proportions of the mixtures used were based on the dry volume of cement (0%, 0.2%, 0.4% and 0.6%).