Flexural Behaviour of Recycled Waste Glass Fine Aggregate Concrete Beams

Abstract

Glass is recycled indefinitely with none loss in quality. This paper presents various grade of concrete like M 20, M 40 and M 60 is the appropriately of recycled glass aggregate as an alternative for making concrete. M 20, M 40 and M 60 control concrete made with conventional fine aggregate and concrete made with glass aggregate. The properties of recycled waste glass aggregate is compared with conventional fine aggregate. For each grade M20, M 40 and M 60, six numbers of size 100 × 100 × 100 millimeter cubes are cast to find out the mechanical strength for control concrete and recycled waste glass fine aggregate concrete. To study flexural behaviour, 125 × 200 × 1100 millimeter size of the beams are cast. All beams are designed as under reinforced sections. For above grade mix, three beams are made with conventional concrete and other three beams are made with recycled waste glass fine aggregate concrete. All the beams are tested for flexure. The maximum load carrying capacity, deflection, crack patterns are obtained. The experimental results are compared with finite element modelling using ANSYS software.