Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete

Today there are still many issues about landfill capacity problem. The global has the same mission in reducing the land capacity of world. Plastic waste is 24% over 17,000 of total municipal waste in Malaysia. Plastic waste has a slow degradation rate. This means that plastic waste is a compound whi...

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Main Author:	Kuah, Yi Mei
Format:	Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:	English English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/1/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29.pdf http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/2/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29%20-%20CHAP%201.pdf http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/3/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29%20-%20CHAP%203.pdf

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spelling	ump-122372016-03-17T06:42:57Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/ Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete Kuah, Yi Mei TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Today there are still many issues about landfill capacity problem. The global has the same mission in reducing the land capacity of world. Plastic waste is 24% over 17,000 of total municipal waste in Malaysia. Plastic waste has a slow degradation rate. This means that plastic waste is a compound which is hard to decompose in landfill. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one type of plastic which is made by virgin plastic usually used to packaging of drink. According to Lesley McFadzean the decompose rate of a plastic bottle is 450 years. These mean that PET will occupy the landfill capacity with 450 year. In this development generation, plastic bottle still used widely and is a life essential for human. There are many countries had tried to reduce the number of PET, such as China created bottle-recycling vending machines and United State form National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) to reduce the PET’s waste. They are finding an alternative ways to reduce PET in landfill capacity. Using PET in construction material is not fresh in the global. In Japan they use PET to spraying and lining of tunnels. In this study PET is used as fibre to investigate the flexural behaviour of concrete. The objectives of this study are: (a) to determine the flexural strength of concrete which have addition of PET strip (b) to determine the performance of different length of PET strip in concrete (c) Compare the flexural strength of conventional and addition of PET strips concrete. The PET is hand cut into 10mm width and 20 mm, 40 mm and 60 mm length. The slump test, flexural test and compression test were carried out to indicate the performance of concrete. The results show that the increase in length of PET fibre the: (a) compressive strength increase (b) flexural strength increase (c) crack width control improved (d) ductility of concrete increase 2015-06 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/1/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/2/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29%20-%20CHAP%201.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12237/3/FKASA%20-%20KUAH%20YI%20MEI%20%28CD9282%29%20-%20CHAP%203.pdf Kuah, Yi Mei (2015) Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete. Faculty of Civil Engineering & Earth Resources, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:92181&theme=UMP2
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description	Today there are still many issues about landfill capacity problem. The global has the same mission in reducing the land capacity of world. Plastic waste is 24% over 17,000 of total municipal waste in Malaysia. Plastic waste has a slow degradation rate. This means that plastic waste is a compound which is hard to decompose in landfill. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one type of plastic which is made by virgin plastic usually used to packaging of drink. According to Lesley McFadzean the decompose rate of a plastic bottle is 450 years. These mean that PET will occupy the landfill capacity with 450 year. In this development generation, plastic bottle still used widely and is a life essential for human. There are many countries had tried to reduce the number of PET, such as China created bottle-recycling vending machines and United State form National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) to reduce the PET’s waste. They are finding an alternative ways to reduce PET in landfill capacity. Using PET in construction material is not fresh in the global. In Japan they use PET to spraying and lining of tunnels. In this study PET is used as fibre to investigate the flexural behaviour of concrete. The objectives of this study are: (a) to determine the flexural strength of concrete which have addition of PET strip (b) to determine the performance of different length of PET strip in concrete (c) Compare the flexural strength of conventional and addition of PET strips concrete. The PET is hand cut into 10mm width and 20 mm, 40 mm and 60 mm length. The slump test, flexural test and compression test were carried out to indicate the performance of concrete. The results show that the increase in length of PET fibre the: (a) compressive strength increase (b) flexural strength increase (c) crack width control improved (d) ductility of concrete increase
format	Undergraduates Project Papers
author	Kuah, Yi Mei
author_facet	Kuah, Yi Mei
author_sort	Kuah, Yi Mei
title	Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete
title_short	Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete
title_full	Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete
title_fullStr	Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete
title_full_unstemmed	Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete
title_sort	flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (pet) fibre in concrete
publishDate	2015
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Flexural behaviour of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibre in concrete

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