Exploitation of Waste Materials for Repairing Concrete

Epoxy and polymers played a significant role in the world of construction and repair in the past few decades. The major problem in using epoxy for construction repair is its high cost. The current study aims at confronting this problem, and attempting decrease cost by adding waste materials without affecting it's properties, Window glass and porcelain tile waste were chosen to add to the epoxy at different percentages (10, 20, 30, and 40 %) to create composites that could be used as new repairing materials. The experiment will attempt to find out the suitable percentage of mixing. Such percentage is not used when bonding the concrete to decrease the cost of concrete repairing. Accordingly, the new composites were tests for compression and bond strength to measure the adhesion strength. The final results showed a general improvement in the properties of the new composite when adding glass and porcelains, yet the porcelains results were much better than glass as filler with epoxy, which achieved the main objective of the current work in finding a developed and better repair material used for cracks and construction with a less cost.