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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2013)

Published: December 1, 2013

Pages: 27-38

Articles

Using Of Recycled Rubber Tires And Steel Lathes Waste As Fibbers To Reinforcing Concrete

Abstract

This research paper is accomplished to study the effect of using waste fibers in properties of concrete . Steel lathe waste fibers are added by percentages of (4, 6 and 8 %) from weight of concrete and a percentages of concrete coarse aggregate are replaced by rubber tires waste fibers in a ratios of (5, 10 and 15%) by volume . Besides to that, the combined fibers are used steel lathe waste fibers by adding (4, 6 and 8 %) with constant replacing of rubber tires waste fibers of (10 %). The results showed that adding of steel lathe waste fibers in plain concrete enhances its strength under compression about (15%) and tension about (20%), while rubber tires waste reduced both of compression about (80 %) and tension about (51%) strengths .Also the compression and tension strengths are reduced (88% and 30%) respectively with using combined fibers . The dry concrete density of lathe waste fibers concrete is (2345-2365kN/m3) , the rubberized concrete density is (2130-2240kN/m3) and for combined fibers concrete density (2025-2180 kN/m3).