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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016): IJRDO - Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Experimental Studies on Waste Plastic Fibre Reinforced Concrete Using M-Sand as Fine Aggregate

DOI
https://doi.org/10.53555/mce.v2i2.1168
Submitted
January 2, 2018
Published
January 31, 2016

Abstract

Concrete is the main construction materialin the world. It consist of cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water as main ingredients. Now days 

due to high global consumption of natural sand, sand deposit are being depleted and causing serious threat to environment as well as society. River sand is 

becoming a scarce commodity and hence an exploration alternative to it has become imminent. Manufactured sand is the good alternative to river sand and it is 

purposely made, fine crushed aggregate produced under controlled conditions from a suitable sand source rock. Plastics are non biodegradable common 

environmental polluting materials. These are going to affect the fertility of soil. In present study the detailed experimental investigation is carried out on plastic fibre reinforced concrete by partial replacement of  natural sand by manufactured sand with different  percentages( 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%,80%,100%) and adding fixed percentage (0.5% of weight cement)) of plastic fibres. The mechanical properties of concrete like compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength are studied here

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