Efficiency of Plastic Fibres Waste on the Physico-Mechanical Properties of Mortars in Hot-Dry Conditions

Abstract

Contribution/ OriginalityThis study contributes to enrich the fibres mortars researches. For technico-economical and environmental interests, we used local materials coming from natural and industrial waste, such as the sand and fibres. It is one of very few studies which have investigated the effect of hot-dry conditions on the properties of mortars.

Engineering properties of plastic waste reinforced sand

“…First, the discrete fibers are simply added and mixed randomly with soil, in much the same way as cement, lime, or other additives. Second, randomly distributed fibers limit potential planes of weakness that can develop parallel to oriented reinforcement [1][2][3][4].…”

“…Using plastic wastes such as tire shreds to improve the mechanical properties of soil dates back to the 1990. Many researchers studied on the engineering properties of plastic waste reinforced soils [2,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The idea of incorporating other plastic wastes in soil was first proposed by Benson and Khire [19].…”