Performance of Steel Scrap in Concrete

Today the construction industry is in need of finding cost effective materials for increasing the strength of concrete structures. It is inevitable to think about sustainable development by reducing the wastes generated or reusing it. Hence an attempt has been made in the present investigations to study the performance of addition of waste materials like binding wire, steel nails, steel lathe waste fiber (turn fiber) from workshop at a dosage of 0.5%, 1% and 1.5% of total weight of concrete. Experimental investigation was done using M25 mix and tests were carried out as per recommended procedures by relevant codes. Total of 162 specimens of scrap concrete and PCC were made. This paper aims to have a comparative study between turn fiber, binding wire and steel nail in M25 concrete. The test parameters include compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength of conventional concrete and steel scrap in concrete.