Polystyrene is a highly popular plastic packaging material. It is essentially non-biodegradable and takes hundreds of years to decompose in case of land filling while other disposal methods or treatments methods create hazardous effects on the environment. However, this material is known to possess properties such as sound insulation, high thermal conductivity, and lightweight, thereby making it a great additive in concrete. Haven incorporated this material into a concrete matrix; in various percentages which served as partial replacement for coarse aggregates, the concretes’ properties were tested and compared with the properties of the conventional concrete. The experimental data was obtained based on the replacement coarse aggregate by EPS volume ratio of 0%, 4%, 8%, 12% and 16%. The concretes’ properties such as its slump, density, compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile strength were experimentally determined. These results were then used to determine the influence of polystyrene as partial replacement for coarse aggregate was analyzed and the results compared with that of a concrete mix containing no polystyrene. The results obtained from this analysis indicate that the addition of polystyrene in a concrete mix implies smaller densities as the densities of concrete containing 0%, 4%, 8%, 12% and 16% are 2536, 2443, 2363, 2339 and 2316 Kg/m3 respectively. It was also observed that the compressive strength of the concrete decreased with an increase in the percentage of polystyrene incorporated. This is clearly shown using in the 28th day strength of the concrete samples (21.68, 17.25, 15.87, 14.53 and 13.92 mpa for replacements at 0%, 4%, 8%, 12% and 16% respectively). Similarly, the flexural strength of the concrete decreased with an increase in the percentage of polystyrene incorporated. Whereas, the variations in the split tensile strengths were inconsistent as they were notable increments and decrease in the 28th day strength of the various concrete matrixes.
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