EFFECT OF INFLUENCE OF PLASTIC FIBERS IN THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT CONCRETE

For the comfortable living of people shelters like buildings and for convenient and luxurious living Infrastructures are use full, which are constructed by using concrete. We know that concrete consumption plays second role after water. So concrete plays a predominant role in the construction field. Even though concrete is a good construction material we can see some problems with concrete like availability of ingredients, low ductility, less tensile strength compared to its compressive strength and so. Entire the world many researches are carried by researchers to eliminate the drawbacks of it. To convert the concrete to more advantageous providing fiber reinforcement is one of the techniques. In this we are dealing with usage of plastic fibers in concrete. Plastic disposal is one of the major problems, using this waste plastic we can decrease the bothering of the plastic disposal. The following points are observed in this project:  We are adding the plastic fibers 0%, 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, and 1.00% by the volume of concrete  There is increase in the compressive strength of 28.06% by increasing the percentage of plastic fibers.  Tensile strength increases in the range of 40.82%.  It is observed that there is a decrease in workability by increasing plastic fibers.