PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF

SAND IN CONCRETE BY PET

BOTTLES
PRESENTED BY
 NETHRAVATHI T M (2AV12CV013)
 RAKESH CHAKKI (2AV12CV020)
 SRIKANTH SANAMO (2AV12CV029)
 PRAVEENKUMAR WALMIKI (2AV13CV431)

UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF

PROF. AKSHATA MUSALE BE, M.TECH
CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION

 OBJECTIVES

 LITERATUREREVIEW
 METHODOLOGY

 REFERENCE
INTRODUCTION
 Plastic having low density, high strength, user friendly designs,
fabrication capabilities, long life, light weight and low cost
characteristics are the factors behind the extraordinary growth.
 Plastics have been used in very large and useful applications, it
gives to an ever increasing amount in the solid waste stream.
 In the plastics waste, polyethylene forms the largest fraction, which
is followed by Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) that represents one
of the most common plastics in solid urban waste.
 As per the estimates, India produces 500,000 tons of pet waste
every year. [4]
 This is increasing at a rate of 1.5 to 2% every year. [4]
 Due to increasing use of pet bottles in daily Consumption, the
amount of waste is going to grow.
 The recycling rate of PET bottles is much less than the sales of
virgin PET production for common uses. This gap is dramatically
increasing, pushing towards finding a solution of this problem and a
higher recycle of PET.
 The PET bottles cannot be disposed of by dumping or burning, as
they produce uncontrolled fire or contaminate the soil and
vegetation.
 A possible application is to utilize waste PET fibers as replacement
of fine aggregates in concrete.
PET BOTTLES
RECYCLABLE PET BOTTLES (SOURCE: GOOGLE)
PIECES OF PET BOTTLES
WASTES OF PET BOTTLES
OBJECTIVES
 To study the properties of PET.
 To study the effect of PET over the compressive strength of
concrete.
 To compare the strength of PET mix concrete with conventional mix
concrete.
 To determine the percentage of plastic fibre which gives more
strength when compared to control concrete.

 
LITERATURE RIVIEW
Sahil Verma and Sahil Arora.(2015)[4]

AIM: To study the experiment on “Replacement of Natural sand in

concrete by polyethylene bottle"

MATERIAL USED :Cement ,sand ,coarse aggregate and pet bottle

pieces.

PROCEDURE:
o Mixing of concrete: Mixing of the actual quantities of the ingredients

of concrete is done in a concrete mixer for 3 minutes.

o Preparation of cubes: Cubes were prepared conforming to IS 456-

2000.For most of the work cubical size of 15cmX15cmX15cm is used.

o Curing: cubes were stored in moisture for 24 hours and period were

marked the removed from the moulds and kept submerged in fresh
water until test is performed.
o Testing: Cubes are tested in compression testing machine and

obsevered the results for 7 ,14 and 28 days.

CONCLUSION
o Upto 2% replacement of fine aggregates with waste PET fiber,
there is increase in compressive strength of concrete.

o For conventional concrete compressive strength for 7,14 and 28

days are 20.5N/mm2, 23.2 N/mm2 and 25 N/mm2 respectively. For
7days 22N/mm2 , for 14 days 26N/mm2 , for 28days 28.5N/mm2.

o Concrete mixed with waste PET fiber is eco-friendly, non-hazardous

as it easily get dispersed in concrete mix.

o Hence concrete with waste PET fiber can be used as an effective

plastic waste management practice in future.
 Ms .K.Ramadevi and Mrs. R. Manju.(2012)[5],

AIM: Study on the “Experimental investigation on properties of concrete with

plastic PET (Bottle) fibers as fine aggregate”.
MATERIAL USED: Cement, Fine aggregate, Coarse aggregate, plastic
fibers.
PROCEDURE:
 To collect the PET bottles needed for research.

 Granulating the pieces to smaller size as that of sand.

 Casting and curing of the basic test specimens(cubes,

cylinders) for determination of strength.

 To test the structural models(RC beams with various

percentage of plastic waste) for the results of 7 and 28 days.

CONCLUSION:
 It was observed that the compressive strength, flexural and split tensile
strength is increased up to 2% replacement of the fine aggregate with PET
bottle fibers and it gradually decreased for 4% and 6% replacements. Hence
replacement of fine aggregate with 2% replacement will be reasonable.
 Swaptik Chowdhury. et, al (2013)
AIM: To study the “Behavior of Concrete which is Partially Replaced with
Waste Plastic”.
MATERIAL USED: Cement , sand, coarse aggregate, PET bottle fibres,
PROCEDURE:
 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 4% & 6% of traditional fine aggregate was replaced for
M25 grade concrete by the PET fibres.
 All the cast specimens were de-moulded after 24 hours and were cured in
curing tank for a period of 7 to 28 days.
 They were taken for test such as compression test, split tensile strength
test and flexure test and results were noted.
CONCLUSION
 Compressive strength and split tensile strength increased up to 2%
replacement of the fine aggregate with PET bottle fibres and then
decreased for 4% and 6% replacements.
 The flexural strength of samples with PET bottle fiber as fine aggregate
increases gradually with the increase in the replacement percentage of
PET fibres.
 P GANESH PRABHU et al,(2014)[7]

AIM:Study on utilization of waste pet bottle fiber in concrete.

MATERIAL USED: Cement, plastic bottles, fine aggregate,coarse
aggregete.
PROCEDURE:
o waste PET bottles as the different aspect ratio of 17, 33, 50, size of

fibre added in to the concrete with 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5% PET bottle
fibres for fine aggregate were produced and compared against control
mix with no replacement
o Cube specimens, cylinder specimens were cast, cured and tested for 3

day, 7 day and 28 days strength. Compression test, splitting tensile

test and flexural strength tests were done and the results were
compared with control specimens
CONCLUSION:
 The PET bottles would appear to be low-cost materials which would
help to resolve solid waste problems and preventing environment
pollution.
 METHODOLOGY
Collection of waste PET bottles
and cleaning

Shredding of PET bottles to flakes

and Grinding to granules

Preparation of concrete of grade M25

Casting of test specimens like cubes & beams

with various % of plastic waste, curing the
specimens

Testing of structural specimens

and comparison of results
 MATERIALS USED :
o Cement : Ordinary Portland cement of 43 grade .
o Fine aggregate : River sand of zone-II.
o Coarse aggregate : Crushed angular aggregates of
20mm.
o Plastic fibre : PET granules of size less than 10mm.
 TESTS
 Cement : Specific gravity.
 Coarse Aggregate : Specific gravity test, Water
absorption test, Sieve analysis.
 Fine Aggregate : Specific gravity test, Water absorption test.

 Plastic : Hardness.

 Concrete : Slump test, Compressive strength test, Flexure

strength test.
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