Study on Properties of Concrete using Polyethylene Terephthalate [PET] Fibres Karthikeyan S.*, Dr. Vennila G.** *Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamil Nadu, India **Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India Online published on 2 August, 2016. Abstract Disposal of non-biodegradable material produces a great environmental concern in recent times. One such material we commonly using in our day to day life is plastic. Despite lot of awareness is developing these days to avoid the use of plastics, the quantity of plastic usage is rapidly increasing. This work is carried out to study the performance of concrete containing Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottle wastes as fibre. PET bottle waste was chosen because the use of water bottles has been increasing considerably in recent years. Though it can be recycled, most of the bottles are disposing in wastelands. This paper presents the work on Polyethene terephthalate (PET) fibre as an alternative construction entity. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) belongs to the polyester group. Recently, PET fibres were proposed to be used as either reinforcement in concrete or as fibres in concrete. In this work the PET fibres are used in the form of small sized fibres directly cut from used mineral water bottles A total of four batches of concrete were produced containing PET fibres of 0%, 0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5% fraction volume. In this research, the mechanical properties that were measured are compressive strength and flexural strength. The results revealed that the presence of PET fibre in concrete will increase the concrete performance (strength). Top Keywords Polyethylene Terapthalate, fibre reinforced concrete, ductility. Top |