Optimization of water-cement ratio in concrete contains recycled polypropylene (PP) plastic waste

Alaa Jaleel Naji, Hayder Abbas Al-Yousefi, Mohammed Abbas Mousa, Murtadha Jasim Hussein

Abstract


Recently, the use of recycled plastic waste in civil engineering applications has been increased. This paper aims to investigate the effect of water-cement ratio on the compressive strength of concrete that contents 2.5 % polypropylene (PP) as plastic waste. Two references concrete mixes were prepared. The first mix had a water-cement ratio of 0.45 with 2.5% plastic waste, the second mix with 0.45 water cement ratio but without plastic waste. Three concrete mixes with water cement ratios of (0.5, 0.4, and 0.3) were also used as parametric study cases. The results indicated that decreasing the water-cement ratio from 0.45 to 0.4 increases the compressive strength by 20.2%. Also, the compressive strength increases by 36.2% with decreasing of water cement ratio from 0.45 to 0.3. While the compressive strength decreases by 12% with the increase of water-cement ratio from 0.45 to 0.5.

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Polypropylene water-cement ratio plastic waste compressive strength.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21533/pen.v7i4.834

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