Human Hair Waste Addition on Performance of Plain Concrete

Abstract
Many researchers were endeavoring to up-heave the physical and mechanical properties of concrete sporadically. New methods and experiments are being successfully applied for revamping in the era of waste recyclable technology with proper application of the waste material in concrete as fiber material. These present studies have been undertaken to study the variation of concrete properties adding human hair as fiber reinforcement in concrete. At present male human hair is contemplated as no degradable substance as well as polluted materials for environment that are obtainable in plethora at cheap cost. Human hair used as fiber reinforcement reduces environmental pollution along with concrete’s weakness in tension. In this study, naturally available male human hair was collected, cleaned and added to plain concrete. Performance of plain concrete was investigated with addition of various percentages of human hair in concrete. For this purpose several normal concrete tubes as well as several number of concrete tubes with addition of 0%, 1%, 1.5% and 2% human hair as fiber reinforcement were experimented. It can be observed that compressive strength & split tensile strength of concrete was found maximum while addition of 2% & 1.5% male human hair respectively used in concrete considering as fiber material.