Evaluating Strength Of Concrete Using Bottle Caps And PET
| Author(s) | : | Shefali Christian, Krishna Patel, Mayurika Vasava, Priyanka Vasava, Shonak Purohit |
| Institution | : | UG Students, Civil Engg. Dept., SVMIT, Bharuch, Gujarat. |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 3 — March 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 623-630 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Advancement in technology enhance human comforts and at the same time causes damage to environment. Waste plasticbottles are major cause of solid waste disposal also disposal of metals caps of soft drink bottles are a headache to environmentalengineers and involves processes either to recycle or reuse. On the other hand concrete, is the most popular construction material, whichis very strong in compression. It has some limited properties, low tensile strength, low ductility, and cracking associated with hardeningand curing. Out of all these drawbacks low tensile strength is the important one and to counteract this some fiber like material can beadded to concrete to increase its tensile strength. Therefore in our project an attempt has been taken to study the influence of addition ofwaste materials like metal caps of bottle and PET with dosage of 0.5% of total weight of concrete as fibers. In this investigation capswere cut into strips of size of 3mm width and 15mm length and PET were cut into strip of size of 4mm width and 30mm length.
Shefali Christian, Krishna Patel, Mayurika Vasava, Priyanka Vasava, Shonak Purohit, “Evaluating Strength Of Concrete Using Bottle Caps And PET”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 623-630, March 2017.
