Keywords: Light concrete, PET plastic waste, coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, compressive strength. I.INTRODUCTION The use of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) for food or beverage packing is already familiar in public. After the contents are consumed, th

PET bottles are being experimented to act as non load bearing Keywords— Waste PET aggregate, light weight concrete, structural properties, Bottle house , PET panels I. INTRODUCTION HE problem of recycling waste materials will remain one of the problems …

In this paper, the modulus of elasticity of lightweight concrete contains polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as fine, coarse aggregate and fiber was estimated by using experimental data from different literatures.

About 1.3 billion tons of waste is being generated in the world annually. This waste is a cause of various diseases. Open dumping of waste also destroys valuable agricultural land. Various researchers have beneficially used plastic waste in cement concret

In individual homes in discernible neighborhoods such as Santa Monica, recycling is a desirable way to dispose of recyclable plastic bottles, but contact office parks, other large businesses and ...

The shredded plastic fibers from plastic bottles (polyethylene terephthalate, PET) were used as a partial weight replacement (2.5%, 5%, and 7.5%) of coarse aggregate in concrete blocks.

Nov 26, 2008 · Recycled Glass in Concrete. Nearly all waste glass can be used in concrete applications, including glass that is unsuitable for uses such as glass bottle recycling. Some of the specific glass waste materials that have found use as fine agg

Expanded glass aggregate with relatively high crushing resistance and low water absorption is now available from a manufacturing plant in Hungary. The new aggregate is similar to conventional lightweight aggregates, but the ratio of density of concrete to

behavior of concrete using plastic aggregate. Replacement of fine aggregate weight by 10%, 15%, 20% with Plastic fine (PF) aggregate and for each replacement of fine aggregate 15%, 20%, 25% of coarse aggregate replacement also conducted with Plastic Coars

Utilization of waste PET as aggregates in masonry mortar/ concrete would be good solution to this environmental hazard [2]. Few numbers of studies focusing on uses of PET in mortar and concrete have been reported in the literature. A brief account of the

Oct 25, 2017 · MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic. MIT undergraduate students have found that, by exposing plastic flakes to small, harmless doses of gamma radiation, then pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, they can mix the

Need to calculate the amount of aggregate you'll need for your job? This will give you a great approximation.

Fine aggregate size 0-5 mm Coarse aggregate size 5-10 mm W/C 0.65 Table 2 concrete mix design. 5. Concrete brick with plastic bottles The size of concrete brick with plastic bottles that is using in this study is 200mm wide by 200mm high by 400mm long. Th

Sep 10, 2017 · Recycling of Glass. Glass collection points, known as Bottle Banks are very common in the developed countries where most collection points have separate bins for clear, green and amber glass as re-processors require glass separated by colo

However, lightweight aggregate is faced with some prob- Waste PET bottles had been reworked for drinking lems: (1) the high cost of aggregate due to high incineration bottles by melting fusion, which turned out to be too costly. temperature; (2) the shrin