Evaluating Strength Of Concrete Using Bottle Caps And PET
Keywords:
PET Bottle waste, Metal caps of bottles, Concrete, Tensile strength.Abstract
Advancement in technology enhance human comforts and at the same time causes damage to environment. Waste plastic
bottles are major cause of solid waste disposal also disposal of metals caps of soft drink bottles are a headache to environmental
engineers and involves processes either to recycle or reuse. On the other hand concrete, is the most popular construction material, which
is very strong in compression. It has some limited properties, low tensile strength, low ductility, and cracking associated with hardening
and curing. Out of all these drawbacks low tensile strength is the important one and to counteract this some fiber like material can be
added to concrete to increase its tensile strength. Therefore in our project an attempt has been taken to study the influence of addition of
waste materials like metal caps of bottle and PET with dosage of 0.5% of total weight of concrete as fibers. In this investigation caps
were 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.
