Introduction

Concrete is one of the most used materials in construction and

engineers have worked to ensure
concrete responds to new requirements related to environment
protection [
1
,
2
]. Production of cement,
an important component of concrete, is a cause of CO
2
emission (7%), and the huge quantities of natural
aggregates used in the concrete composition result in important
changes in the natural environment.
Non-conventional concretes, with different types of materials in
the mix, have emerged just for partially
eliminating the above ecological problems. The cement is replaced
partially or totally by different
materials, such as fly ash, silica fume, slag, rice husk and
banana leaves ash [
3
–
8
]. Aggregates have
been replaced by steel slag, chopped plastic bottles, polystyrene
granules, recycled aggregates, chopped
sunflower, etc. [
9
–
13
]. Fibers of diverse types have also been added in the concrete
mix: steel, polyester,
hemp, etc. [
14
–
18
]. The main objective of the article was to analyze the behavior
of hollow blocks
manufactured with concrete prepared with a cement substitution
with fly ash and waste types such
as chopped plastic bottles and wood waste as replacements for
sort 0–4 mm and polyester fibers as
a dispersed reinforcement. The hollow blocks manufactured with
non-conventional concretes will
be used to make a non-load-bearing masonry wall. In the next
stage, this masonry wall will be built
and tested.
2. Experimental Program
2.1. Materials
In the research, a control mix of concrete (C
0
) was used for preparing hollow blocks which had the
following components: cement type CEM I 42.5 R [
19
] in a dosage of 360 kg/m
3
; and river aggregates
in three sorts, namely 0–4 mm, 4–8 mm and 8–16 mm, which were in
the following dosages: 803 kg/m
3
of sand, 384 kg/m
3
of sort 4–8 mm and 559 kg/m
3
of sort 8–16 mm. We used water in a dosage of
172 L/m
3
, and 10% of the cement dosage was replaced with fly ash, from CET
Holboca Iasi. Fly ash
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was used before in other experimental tests and presented by the
authors in [
15
,
20
]. Waste types PET
bottles and wood waste were chopped into sorts of 0–4 mm and used
as replacements for 20% by
volume of the dosage of aggregate sort 0–4 mm in the case of PET
and 40% by volume of the dosage of
the same aggregate sort in the case of wood. The chopped PET and
wood waste had sizes between
0 and 4 mm. Waste from polyester fibers was used, which was cut
into 30 mm-long filaments and
dispersed as a replacement reinforcement in the concrete, in a
dosage of 0.25% of the concrete weight.
In the mixture, we used a superplasticizer (Master Glenium SKY
617 from BASF) in a dosage of 1% of
the cement volume.
2.2. Samples
The control mix of concrete (noted C
0
) and the mixes with fly ash and chopped PET (noted
C
1
), fly ash and wood waste (noted C
2
) and fly ash and polyester fibers (noted C
3
) were prepared
by mixing all the components. The wood waste was moistened before
being added to the mix.
The samples were poured: cubes of 150 mm in size for determining
the compressive strength fc, and
prisms of
100 × 100 × 500 mm
in dimension for determining the flexural strength f
ti
and split tensile
strength f
td
[
21
–
23
]. The hollow blocks, one of which is shown in Figure 1, labeled
HBF1–HBF3 were
manufactured only for the concretes with waste (concretes C
1
–C
3
). After 24 h, the specimens were
removed from the formwork and kept in the laboratory at a
◦
temperature of 20 C until testing
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NTRODUCTION The basic requirement of human being is shelter. In ancient time human starts living in
caves below ground level, after that they started constructing walls from mud, they developed the
techniques of burnt clay brick masonry for making the structure part of the shelter. Now days, hollow
concrete blocks are being very popular in construction. These blocks are being mostly used in the
construction of multi storied buildings, factories and residential buildings. These concrete hollow blocks
are commonly used in compound walls because of cheapness. These concrete hollow blocks are more
useful due to its lightweight and the most important feature is ease of ventilation. The concrete hollow
blocks are made out of mixture of cement, sand and stone chips. It reduces cement in masonry work
and reduced the cost of construction. The hollow concrete blocks found out due to different
advantages1. Sound control 2. Small dead load 3. Resistance to fire 4. Adequate strength 5. Superior
thermal insulation 6. Economy 7. Highly durable 8. Environmentally Eco friendly 9. Reduction in mortar
consumption 10. Fast and Easier construction system 11. Better Architectural features The first Concrete
block as a replacement for stone and wood in the building was used in the United States. The first
concrete block house built up in 1837 on Staten Island in New York. Harmon S. Palmer, designed first
hollow concrete block in 1890. Palmer patented the design of hollow block in 1900 after 10 years of
experimental research. Palmer’s blocks were 8inch(20.3cm)×10inch(25.4cm)×30inch(76.2cm) and they
were heavy in weight. These early hollow blocks were cast by hand and average output was about 10
blocks per hour. Now concrete blocks are manufacturing by automated process that can make up to
2000 blocks per hour. The Compressive strength of masonry is one of the most important property in
the design of masonry structure. This strength depends upon several factors such as unit strength,
mortar strength, grouting, grout strength, geometry of the blocks, bedding mortar, and the type of
bonding and bedding arrangements adopted. In extreme hot or cold climate countries these concrete
blocks possessing low thermal conductivity and also serve as a thermal insulation material which
minimize the energy consumption by minimizing the dependence on electricity for air conditioning or
heating. In all countries, the different conventional materials are replacing to the concrete hollow blocks
because most conventional materials cost is increasing. In the review study we found that hollow blocks
of double H shape gives more strength with semigrouted masonry and low strength with fully grouted
masonry

LITERATURE REVIEW H. S. Sureshchandra, G. Sarangapani, and B. G. Naresh Kumar(2014)[1] find out the
compressive strength of hollow blocks with partial and full replacement of sand by quarry dust. After
replacement he found that 50% replacement of sand gave high strength and 100% replacement of sand
gave low strength. Ernesto S. Fortes, Guilherme A. Parsekian, and Fernando S. Fonseca, A.M.(2014)[2]
studied the compressive strength of ungrouted, grouted masonry and masonry units. This research work
indicate an increase in the compressive strength of the masonry with increasing compressive strength of
the units. Liang Huang, Lejia Liao, Libo Yan, S.M. and Hongwei Yi(2014)[3] studied the compressive
strength of double H concrete block masonry prisms under uniaxial compression. He discussed the
effects of mortar strength, grouting and grout strength effect on compressive strength of the prism. The
test result shows that the compressive strength of H block prism decreased with an increase of grouting
and the ultimate load of the prisms increased greatly. K. S. AlJabri, A. W. Hago,R.Taha, A. S. Alnuaimi and
A. H. AlSaidy(2009)[4] makes the block with waste materials: vermiculite and polystyrene which were
used as light weight aggregates and cement kiln dust (CKD) which was the partial replacement for
cement. The result shows that the light weight concrete blocks manufactured from polystyrene had
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thermal conductivity than vermiculite and ordinary concrete blocks and the addition of up to 15% CKD
as cement replacement gives a negligible effect on the strength. Denise S. Sanchez and Lisa R.
Feldman(2014)[5] determined that calculated tensile resistance of the reinforcement was greater for
bars that were in contact and furthermore is in sensitive to the magnitude of the transverse spacing
provided in the case of noncontact lap splices. Thaniya Kaosol (2010)[6] has made study on the reuse of
concrete waste as crushed stone for hollow concrete masonry units. The main objective was to increase
the value of the concrete waste, to make a sustainable and profitable disposal alternative for the
concrete waste. Attempts were made to utilize the concrete waste as crushed stones in the concrete
mix to make hollow concrete blocks. Various percentages of crusted stones have been tried the amount
(i.e. 0%, 10%, 20%, 50% and 100%). From the results they found concrete waste can used to produce
hallow concrete block masonry units. M.K. Maroliya(2012)[7] found that the crack patterns developed in
the structural elements such as wall and the strength of wall constructed with hollow concrete block
gives the less strength as compared to bri

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