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Abstract
Recent years have witnessed rising social concern about the problem of waste management in general, and industrial waste and waste from the construction industry in particular. This problem is becoming increasingly acute due to the growing quantity of industrial, construction and demolition waste. The need to manage these wastes has become one of the most pressing issues of our times, requiring specific actions aimed at preventing waste generation such as promotion of resource recovery systems (reuse, recycling and waste-to energy systems) as means of exploiting the resources contained within waste, which would otherwise be lost, thus reducing environmental impact [1]. The thesis presents an experimental study carried out to evaluate the effect of recycling some types of locally available natural and artificial solid wastes (i.e. quarry waste, marble waste, and crushed ceramic) as fine and/or coarse aggregates in the production of solid cement bricks so as to conserve natural resources from one side and to dispose these wastes in a safe way in another side. Furthermore, this study investigates the structural behavior of load bearing masonry walls constructed from solid cement bricks containing these wastes and the effect of strengthening these walls with glass fiber reinforced polymer [GFRP] to increase their efficiency and their strength against vertical loads Hence, Decreasing wall thickness which leads to increase the number of floors of bearing wall structures. On the other hands, replacement fine aggregate [FA] or/ and coarse aggregate [CA] of brick wall with glass fiber reinforced polymer [GFRP] increases the initial cracks load and failure loads.