Combined Effect of Waste Glass Powder and Plastic Fiber on the Properties of Concrete

Civil Engineering

Commonly glasses are used in construction and industries work and huge amount of glasses are powdered daily. Also the plastic’s use increases day by day and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle have increased become necessary part of a common man life. Waste glass and plastic disposal are an environmental issue. Due to waste glass powder & plastic face to disposal problem. Now a day’s cost of construction is more with using basic material such as cement, sand and coarse aggregate. In this study 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40% cement is replaced by glass powder and sand is replacing by waste plastic fiber (like waste plastic bottle, plastic bags) with partially replacing sand by 1%, 2%, 3%, and 4% of plastic fiber and combined cement and sand are replaced by waste glass powder and fibers plastic such as above percentage respectively. All above proportional are mix design for M30 concrete and compare properties of concrete with without replacement of waste material concrete mix. This project mainly studied includes compressive strength and flexural strength. The test results show that the slump value is reduced at higher percentage of glass powder and plastic fiber. But up to 20% glass powder and 2% plastic fiber the slump value is not hampered so much. At 20% glass powder and 2% plastic waste replacement, compressive and flexural strength obtained higher than other replacement.

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