Concrete is reinforced using different kind of admixtures in order to increase its properties and making it cost effective. Fibre is one type of reinforcement, which is a composite material made up of cement or mortar and fragmented, separate, distributed, arbitrarily located, and disconnected reasonable fibres. Concrete is broadly utilized as a part of structural designing with its high compressive strength, minimal effort and bottomless crude material. However, regular cement has a few weaknesses, for instance, low malleability, restricted flexibility, little protection from splitting, weak hardness, high fragility, and other factors limits its use.” The cement may get split because of basic and natural properties; however, a large portion of the breaks are shaped because of inherent inward smaller scale breaks as well as the material’s inherent flaws to oppose ductile powers. Such condition of the structure at the tensile end subjects to the cracks under a certain amount of load. Initially there become small splits or cracks and with due respect of time these cracks gets widened. After drying of cement, Cracks may be developed due to shrinkage. The small-scale splits frame because of drying shrinkage or different reasons for volume change if there should be an occurrence of plain concrete. Along these lines many endeavours have been made to expand the rigidity of cement by method for utilizing traditional strengthened steel bars and furthermore by applying limiting systems.
Eco- friendly, low-carbon, and energy-intensive materials are required for a accountable approach to sustainable development. Glass debris can be used to substitute fine natural aggregate in a constructive way. The effects of adding glass cullet to the mechanical characteristics of mortar were investigated for this purpose. The glass aggregate was created from recycled post-consumer waste glass (mainly bottles) from the food, medical, and cosmetics industries. Four different contents of fine glass cullet were used in this experiment (5, 10, 15, and 20 wt. percent of fine aggregate). Compressive, flexural, and split tensile strengths were all assessed. The modulus of elasticity and the Poisson coefficient were also calculated. The inclusion of glass sand aggregate to mortar improves its mechanical qualities. The acquired improvement in split tensile strength was the least influenced when comparing the strengths. Rarely has the found effect for the increased examined attributes of the glass sandaggregate content been documented. Furthermore, it was discovered that increasing the recycled glass sand aggregate content in mortar reduced the density. The links between the properties of mortar containing glass sand aggregate were also investigated. Keywords: Portland Pozzolana Cement (ultra-Tech), Drinking Water, natural sand, and waste glass replacement were used in the current experiment.
Socio-Economic development of a country includes sustainable transportation system. As simulation is safer, less expensive and faster than field implementation and testing, Microscopic simulation models have been widely used in transportation operations and management analysis. The accuracy and reliability decide the usefulness of these models in making design and traffic control. Nowin India, VISSIM which is microscopic traffic simulation software is used. However, modifications to the default behavioral parameters are essential to effectively simulate Indian heterogeneous traffic conditions. In this study, the queue length and travel time of link connected to Narayan Singh Circle and Trimurti Circle intersection is analyzed before and after transfer the bus stop at Narayan Singh Circle to the periphery of city. For this, intersections are designed in VISSIM software and traffic flow performance is validated via VISSIM. Then average vehicular delay under different traffic volumes was analyzed. The results are finally compared before and after transfer the bus stop at Narayan Singh Circle to the peripheryof city. Keywords: Non-destructive Testing, Concrete, Structural Health Monitoring, Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity,Rebound Hammer.
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