ARANZANSO, EZEKIEL LENIN G.

BSCE-5C
• Plastic is a material consisting of a wide range of synthetic or semi-
synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded
into solid objects.
• As the world’s population increases, wastes also increases. One of the
largest wastes that are produced are plastics.
• It adversely affects the
environment in the form of
air, water, and land
pollution. Nowadays, it is
one of the biggest
problems that humans are
encountering.
• In concrete technology, it is popular today to reinforce the concrete with
small, randomly distributed fibers. Thus, recognizing the so-called fiber
reinforced concrete.
• One way to recycle plastic wastes is to make it a fiber and use them for fiber
reinforced concrete. (Khalid, 2018).
• In this study, Polyethylene
Terephthalate (PET) bottles will be
used.
 GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• To characterize the influence of varying shapes
of PET plastic fiber (ring shape, twisted shape
and C-shape) for fiber reinforced concrete.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To determine the physical properties of the raw
materials, such as bulk and SSD specific gravity,
surface moisture and fineness modulus of fine and
coarse aggregates.
• To determine the influence of various shapes of PET
plastic fiber in reinforced concrete block such as
compressive, flexural, and split tensile strengths.
• To determine the cracking mechanism for each
mechanical property.
• To determine the compressive strength of concrete
masonry prism
• To determine the most suitable mix design among
the proposed mix design with varying PET plastic
fibers
RESULTS
OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE USING DOMESTIC
WASTE PLASTICS AS FIBRES”
R. Kandasamy and R. Murugesan
•Investigated the addition of polythene fibers (domestic plastics), at a
dosage of 0.5% by weight of cement in a M20 mix.

•Increased the cube compressive strength of concrete in 28 days to

an extent of 5.12%;
• Increased the cylinder compressive strength of concrete in 28 days
to an extent of 3.84%;
•Increased the split tensile strength to an extent of 1.63%; and
•Mechanical properties of FRC using steel fibers is not of the same
trend as to FRC using polythene fibers
RESULTS
OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“PERFORMANCE OF PLASTIC WASTES IN FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS”
F.S. Khalid, J.M. Irwan, M.H. Wan Ibrahim, N. Othman, S. Shahidan

•Used various shapes of fibers, including ring-shaped PET (RPET),

irregularly shaped, and wire-shaped in FRC composite.
•Experimented the performance of FRC using the said fiber shapes
under different concrete tests.
•Adding RPET fibers contribute to the increase in tensile strength
of concrete. Test results also include that irregularly-shaped
plastic fibers did not improve the tensile strength of the
concrete.
RESULTS
OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“FRESH AND STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH
METALIZED PLASTIC WASTE FIBERS”
Ankur C. Bhogayata, Narendra K. Arora

•Investigated fresh and hardened properties of concrete with an

inclusion of metalized plastic waste (MPW)
•Workability, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and
flexural strength
•Reduced workability in addition of dosage of fibers
•Improved crack resistance, improved deformation capacity at higher
loads
•Compressive and flexural strength were not directly affected by the
inclusion of MPW fibers
RESULTS OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“STUDY OF STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF WASTE PLASTIC
FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE”
Nitish M. Patil , V. G. Khurd , Sagar B. Patil

•Studied how different percentages of fibers in concrete can affect

various strength aspects such as compressive strength, tensile strength,
and flexural strength.

•Based on experiments it is concluded that the compressive strength

increase about 13% than conventional concrete;
•Tensile strength increases about 38%;
•Flexural strength increases about 65%;
•The compressive, tensile, and flexural strength of concrete increases
as the percentage of waste plastic fibers added to the concrete
increases;
•We can use waste plastic in fiber reinforced concrete to control
pollution of environment.
RESULTS OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“STRENGTHS PREDICTION OF PLASTIC FIBER REINFORCED
CONCRETE”
R. N. Nibudey

•Describes the performance of plastic fiber reinforced concrete (M30)

while plastic fibers are added from 0.0% to 3.0%.

•With an addition of 1.0% of plastic fibers the compressive strength

of the concrete cube increased up to 4.30%;
• With an addition of 1.0% of plastic fibers the tensile strength of the
concrete cube increased up to 11.21%;
•The split tensile strength was increased by 1.11%;
•During the test it was observed that the failure of fiber reinforced
specimens was gradual and did not break into two pieces like control
concrete specimens.
RESULTS OF PREVIOUS STUDIES
“RECYCLING WOVEN PLASTIC SACK WASTE AND PET BOTTLE WASTE AS FIBER
IN RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETE: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY”
Ngoc Kien Bui, Tomoaki Satomi, Hiroshi Takahashi

•Investigated the potential use of recycled PET bottle waste (RPET), and
recycled woven plastic sack waste (RWS) in fiber-reinforced recycled
aggregate concrete (RAC).
•RPET fiber performed better in RAC in comparison with RWS fiber.
Both RWS and RPET fibers improved the post-cracking behavior and
ductility capacity of RAC.
•RPET and RWS fibers enhanced the splitting tensile strength of RAC.
•increased by 11.8–20.3% using RPET fibers
•increased by 9–16.6% using RWS
•Enhanced shear strength of RAC
•2-4% increase for RWS
•7-15% increase for RPET
•Use of recycled waste plastic fibers in RAC can bring significant
developments of construction industry and betterment of the
environment
Collection and Preparation of Plastics
• Acquiring and cleaning the plastic bottles.
• Preparation of plastic fibers.
Determining the physical properties of raw materials
• Determination of specific gravity and surface moisture of sand.
• Determination of sieve analysis and fineness modulus of sand.
• Determination of specific gravity and surface moisture of gravel.
Production of Concrete Samples
• Acquiring of Raw Materials
• Preparation of Casting Molds
• Mix Design
• Batching
• Mixing
• Casting
• Curing
• Concrete Testing
• Physical Properties of
Sands
• Specific gravity (Bulk
and SSD)
• Surface Moisture
• Fineness Modulus
• Properties comply to
the ASTM C 33
Standards
• Physical Properties of
Gravel
• Specific gravity (Bulk and
SSD)
• Surface Moisture
• Properties comply to the
ASTM C 33 Standards
• Mechanical Properties of
Concrete
• Compressive strength test
• Not significantly
improved
• Progressive cracking occur
• Ring-shaped fibers =0.83%
Twisted-shaped fibers= -2.86%.
C-shaped fibers =-5.83%.
• Mechanical Properties
of Concrete
• Flexural Strength Test
• ASTM C 293-02
• A significant increase in
flexural strength
• Cracks slowly develop
• Ring-shaped fibers =6.38%
Twisted-shaped fibers=
15.96%.
C-shaped fibers =-1.60%.
• Mechanical Properties
of Concrete
• Split-tensile Strength Test
• A significant increase
in split-tensile strength
• Cracks slowly develop
• Ring-shaped fibers =4.08%
Twisted-shaped
fibers=7.09%.
C-shaped fibers =-7.50%.
 • Mechanical Properties of
Concrete
• Concrete Prism Test
• Not significantly
improved
• Progressive cracking occur
at the prism with 1.0%
twisted fibers
• Brittle cracking occurred at
the plain concrete prism
1.0% • -2.94% decrease in strength