An Experimental Study on Fibre Reinforced Foam Concrete Using Hybrid Fiber

Abstract

Foam concrete is one of the light weight concrete which contains cement, filler, water and foaming agent. Nowadays, this foam concrete has very useful characteristics for building construction. It requires no compaction and can easily fill the irregular cavities. In construction industry, various types of industrial waste materials was used to improve the strength and durability properties of the concrete. The endeavours to improve the strength properties such as cement, silica fume, fly ash, foaming Agent, Poly Vinyl Alcohol (PVA) fiber and carbon fiber were used. The combination of two fibers were added in the foam concrete with the different proportion of 0.3%, 0.4% and 0.5%. This paper describes the strength properties such as compressive strength, split tensile strength, water absorption characteristics and prediction of compressive strength of the fibre reinforced foam concrete using python. The targeted design density of foam concrete is 1650 kg/m3. All the specimens were tested and determined the strength at the age of 7 days, 14 days and 28 days.

Study on the Performance Behaviour of Fibre Reinfored Foam Concrete

“…It is utilised as a replacement in the manufacturing of concrete. According to the research that has been published [19][20][21][22][23][24], the lightweight concrete of foamed concrete's early strength is increased by the addition of silica fume, simultaneously it reduces its workability of the concrete. The purpose of this investigation is to find out the effect of fibre reinforced foamed concrete which is prepared by cement replacement by silica fume with the proportion upto 50% with various mix.…”

Investigation on Tensile and Flexural Behaviour of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Using Artificial Neural Network

“…Building materials that are more durable and have a longer lifespan are required (Suresh and Nagaraju 2015;Vikram Singh Kashyap et al 2023;Dhanalakshmi Ayyanar et al 2023) to fulfill the continuous and unending demands that are placed on an infrastructure that is in a state of perpetual change. By increasing its resistance to deterioration over time, concrete's performance may be improved by the use of appropriate mineral additives in proportions that are just right (Dhanalakshmi and Hameed 2022;Dhanalakshmi et al 2023aDhanalakshmi et al , 2023bSukontasukkul et al 2023;Puvaneshwaran and Vipurajan 2023;Valarmathi et al 2009). Enhancing the performance of concrete in this way is one of the techniques available.…”