Comparative Study of Polymer Fibre Reinforced Concrete With Conventional Concrete Pavement

Abstract

Road transportation is undoubtedly the lifeline of the nation and its development is a crucial concern. The traditional bituminous pavements and their needs for continuous maintenance and rehabilitation operations points towards the scope for cement concrete pavements. There are several advantages of cement concrete pavements over bituminous pavements. This paper emphasizes on POLYMER FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS, which is a recent advancement in the field of reinforced concrete pavement design. A comparative study of these pavements with the conventional concrete pavements has been made using Polypropylene fiber waste as fiber reinforcement.

Development of Enhanced Polymer Fiber Reinforced Concrete

“…From Figure 3, the variation in compressive strength between the non-PFRC and PFRC of different fiber compositions. These differences can be because of the hydrophilic nature of nylon fibers that did not allow fibers to slip out during wet curing (Kanalli et al, 2014). At a lower composition of nylon fiber, the compressive strength is not impressive; a similar case is being observed at the higher composition of nylon fibers.…”