Research Article
Strength and Behavior of Concrete Contains Waste Plastic
Manhal A Jibrael1 and Farah Peter2*1Department of Civil Engineering, Koya University, Koya, Kurdistan region, Iraq
2Deaprtment of Chemical Engineering, Koya University, Koya, Kurdistan region, Iraq
- *Corresponding Author:
- Peter F
Department of Civil Engineering
Koya University, Koya
Kurdistan region, Iraq
Tel: +964 748 012 7520
E-mail: farah.ayad@koyauniversity.org
Received April 22, 2016; Accepted May 24, 2016; Published May 31, 2016
Citation: Jibrael MA, Peter F (2016) Strength and Behavior of Concrete Contains Waste Plastic. J Ecosys Ecograph 6:186. doi:10.4172/2157-7625.1000186
Copyright: ©2016 Jibrael MA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This paper presents a method of strengthen concrete by the addition of percentages recycled waste plastic (polyethylene). Almost 126 samples of concrete are prepared, the concrete Strength (compressive, splitting tensile and flexural strength) are investigated along a time interval of 7 to 28 days using 1%, 3% and 5% from fine aggregate recycled waste plastic (polyethylene). It is found that when waste plastic bottles increased from zero to 5% of the sand in the mix, the compressive, tensile and flexural strength of concrete decreased by the ratios of 12.81, 10.71, and increase by 4.1% respectively at 7 days age and also these concrete strength decrease by the ratios 7.93, 28.6, and 23.6% at 28 days age.
