Experimental Investigation of Steel Waste Generated From Lathes as Fiber Reinforced Concrete

This project is achieved to study the effect of using industrial steel wastes that resulted from lathes as fiber reinforced concrete. Lathe waste is mild steel quality material which is representing an environmental issue and its management by recycling it with concrete is considered to be a good solution. This steel lathe waste is bought at a cost of Rs 10/kg. Experimental investigation for the materials is performed based on the experiments done, we decided to make four types of cubes conventional cube, cube with 2% of lathe steel waste as fiber, cube with 4% lathe steel waste as fiber, cube with 6% of lathe steel waste fiber. To know the spilt tensile strength and flexure strength, cylinder and beam specimens were casted with the same 2%, 4%, 6% in addition of fibers. These cubes, beam, cylinder is made with mix design of M25 and left for 14days and 28 days curing. The results shows that the addition of lathes steel waste fibers into the plain concrete mixture enhanced its compressive strength while it decreased the workability of the fresh concrete containing the steel waste fibers.