Use of the Rmocol waste in fiber reinforced concrete

Abstract

Different types of wastes generated in today’s world causes great harm to environment, resulting mainly in air, water and soil pollution. In civil engineering concrete plays a vital role in construction purposes. Keeping in mind the effects of global warming and air pollution Thermocol which when treated as a waste creates a lot of trouble when it is burned releases poisonous gases causing respiratory problems causing to death. Thermocol when buried makes the soil infertile and thus cause great harm to environment hence reducing the crop production. Thermocol is a pre expanded closed cell foam of polystyrene beats. It gives non-hydroscopic odorless rigid closed cell. So we can combined it with concrete to make a fiber reinforced concrete and it can be mixed easily because of its property of light weight and dimensional stability. This concrete can offers thermal resisting property as taken from Thermocol which can be used in ceilings and walls and also due to sound proof nature it can be used in sound proof structures. This fiber reinforced concrete offers improve tensile strength and energy absorbing properties in addition with improved impact strength and fatigue strength which in uncommon in normal concrete.