Review On Copper Slag Concrete Formation And Applications

Abstract

Concrete, a brittle material, can be improved by adding randomly oriented short discrete fibers to control crack initiation, propagation, and coalescence. This addition significantly influences hardened concrete properties, toughness, energy absorption, resistance to dynamic load, and crack spacing and width. Hybrid fibers can achieve the same properties as conventional fiber reinforced concrete but with a smaller number of fibers. The use of a single type of fiber may only improve FRC properties to a limited extent. Hybridization, the process of adding two or more types of fibers into concrete, offers more attractive engineering properties as the presence of one fiber allows for more efficient utilization of the potential properties of the other fibers.