Experimental Investigation on Beam with Composite Reinforcement Using Mild Steel Tube In-Filled with Crumb Rubber

Abstract

In today developing consequence, innovative alternates are being familiarized from recycled wastages used in concrete construction. This study concentrates on alternate reinforcement in the structural elements. The conventional reinforcement is replaced by the rubber composite reinforcement using in-filled tubes. The bond relation among the mild steel tube and concrete is simply good. The performance of the composite reinforcement using rubber in-filled tubes are comparing to the conventional reinforcement. The composite reinforcement is made by in-filling the mild steel tubes with cement slurry and crumb rubber. And the crumb rubber gained from the cracker mill. This crumb rubber institutes to the solid waste management. The scrap tires are prepared into crumb rubber and mixed with water – cement in a mortar ratio of 1:1:2 (water: cement: sand) to attain the colloidal consistency. 40% of 177-micron size crumb rubber sieves replaced instead of sand. This crumb rubber constitutes to the solid waste management and light weight. Hence these composite reinforcements will reduce weight of steel in reinforced concrete along with the decrease in cost of construction. This idea inspects the flexural strength of concrete beam with composite reinforcement, Mild steel pipe reinforcement and ordinary reinforcement by third point loading.

Keywords

• flexural strength
• in-filled tubes
• crumb rubber
• composite reinforcement