IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 04 Issue: 07 | July-2015, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 166 PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE INCORPORATING INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL TEXTILE WASTES Ashraf Mohamed Heniegal 1 , Fawkia Fahim El-Habiby 2 , Radwa Defalla Abdel Hafez 3 1 Department of civil construction and architectural, faculty of industrial education / Suez university, Egypt. 2 Dept of textile engineering, Faculty of Engineering / Mansoura University, Egypt. 3 Civil Structures Dept., Faculty of Industrial Education / sohag Univ, Egypt. Abstract To reduce the impact on the environment, industrial and agricultural waste products such as carpet waste, sisal and flax have been added to the concrete. Usage of these materials in concrete does not only improve the strength of concrete but also leads to the proper disposal of these materials that leads to reduce the impact on environment. Fiber admixture can effectively improve the mechanical and physical properties of concrete. Utilization of recycled fibers from post-consumer, industrial waste and agricultural waste offer some benefits such as waste reduction, resource conservation, also low-cost materials and reduced need for land filling. Concrete is a tension weak building material, which is often cracked not ridden in plastic and hardened states, drying shrinkage and so on, low tensile strength limited ductility and resistance to cracking. In order to improve attempt has been made to study the effect of these materials on ordinary Portland cement concrete. In the experimental work, glass fibers, sisal, flax and waste carpet waste in different percentage (0.5%, 1% and 2 %) has been added by volume of concrete volume. The hardened concrete properties compressive strength, dry Shrinkage, Impact stress, The effect of temperature and Thermal conductivity of Concrete) were carried out. A total of Thirteen concrete mixtures were performed with cement content of 350 Kg/m 3 at water - cement ratio = 0.525 , The amount of water was adjusted according to cement content, The super plasticizer dosage varied from 0.8% to 2.5% of cement content to achieve the required level of workability defined by a slump value of 10± 2cm. KEYWORDS: Percentages added, concrete mixes, (sisal, flax, glass fiber and Carpet wastes fiber), Coarse Aggregate (CA), Fine Aggregate (FA), compressive strength test, dry Shrinkage, Impact energy , The effect of temperature and Thermal conductivity of Concrete test. -------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION The addition of carpet fiber leads to enhance the splitting tensile strength, flexural strength and reducing the crack- size and a smoother mode of failure, unlike the brittle failure behavior of plain concrete [1]. Flax fiber is a natural fiber which has a look in the like jute fiber, but this fiber is used extremely in textile industries for its rough texture and has higher cellulose content and has better elasticity and strength. The chemical composition includes cellulose, lignin and hemicelluloses. Strength of this fiber is very high and this property makes it a chief geo-synthesizer fiber for it has smaller elongation coefficient [2]. Use of Fibers (Sisal and flax) are one of the most widely used natural fibers in yarns, ropes, twines, cords, rugs, carpets, mattresses, mats, and handcrafted articles [3]. Previous investigation glass fibers in different percentage 0 to 0.1% has been studies for the effect on mechanical properties of concrete by carrying compressive strength test, flexural strength test and splitting tensile strength test. The results have shown improvement in mechanical and durability properties with the addition of glass fibers [4]. This investigation aim to study the effect of sisal fiber addition on the different Properties of concrete, Sisal fiber was used at three percentages of total mix volume. (0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5%) by volume of concrete volume, found that concrete reinforced with1.0% of sisal fiber give the best results, The water absorption was increased due to the addition of sisal fiber. For mixes contain (0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5%) sisal fiber by volume of total mix the increase in water absorption was (5.9%, 16.1% and 23.8%) respectively [5]. 2. EXPERIMENTAL WORK To test the physical-mechanical properties of concrete with addition of (sisal, flax, glass fiber and Carpet waste fibers) to concrete by ratio (0.5%, 1% and 2 %) by volume of concrete volume, concrete cubs were made the specific and materials tests were performance to choose the best one for concrete cubes . 2.1 MATERIALS CEMENT: Ordinary Portland cement was used. Testing of cement was carried out according to Egyptian Standard Specification (ESS 4756-1, 2007) [6] .