• Navneet Singh
• Mehvish Bilal
• Navjot Singh

Concrete as one of the most widely used building material. It is composed of three main elements, they are cement, sand and aggregates in which they are bonded together by cement and formed concrete that is in fact a man-made stone. Its compressive strength is acceptable and tensile strength is very low (about ten percentage of compressive strength). Human hair is considered as a waste material in most parts of the world and is a common constituent found in municipal waste streams which cause enormous environmental problems. This is an attempt to find the possibilities of using hair as fibre reinforcement in concrete, thereby forming an alternative way for the safe management of hair waste. Human hair is strong in tension; hence it can be used as a fibre reinforcement material. Hair Fibre, an alternate non-degradable matter, is available in abundance and at a very cheap cost. Present studies have been undertaken to analyses the effect of human hair on plain cement concrete on the basis of compressive, crushing and flexural strengths and cracking control to economize concrete and to reduce environmental problems. Experiments were conducted on concrete cubes with various percentages of human hair fibre i.e. 1%, 2% and 3% by weight of cement. By testing we found that there is an increment in the various properties and strength of concrete by the addition of human hair as fibre reinforcement which makes it suitable for an alternative additive for concrete to enhance its mechanical properties. Also, hair fibre reinforced concrete can be an alternative method for the hair waste management.

Human Hair (HH), Normal Concrete (NC),Edition (ed),

"EFFECT OF HUMAN HAIR FIBER ON STRENGTH OF CONCRETE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.225-228, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06043.pdf

"EFFECT OF HUMAN HAIR FIBER ON STRENGTH OF CONCRETE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp225-228, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06043.pdf