Experimental Investigations on The Flexural Strength of PET Reinforced Concrete

Due to the rapid industrialization taking place globally, the problems generated are acute shortage of construction material and increasing in productivity of wastes. The production and consumption of plastic and the rate at which solid plastic waste (SPW) are created have increased considerably. Plastics constitute 12.3% of total waste produced most of which is from discarded water bottles. The present research studies concentrate on resolving the above issues in a beneficial way. By the usage of PET bottle waste at suitable scale as concrete reinforcement for constructional works, the present research aims at waste management, by use of PET waste in improvement of concrete. The non-biodegradable PET bottle waste is used as reinforcement for concrete and the flexural strength of hardened concrete at 28days was tested and compared with conventional concrete and steel reinforced concrete. In this study, there are four types of concrete beam specimens with steel reinforcement, without steel reinforcement, with PET reinforcement and combined steel and PET reinforcement tested for 28 days flexural strengths and the detailed analysis of the results are reported. Keywords— Concrete, Flexural Strength, PET waste concrete, PET Bottle waste