Performance Evaluation of ordinary concrete reinforced with Polypropylene (P), Polyethylene (E) and Woven rowing (O) glass fibers for different water-cement ratios.
Keywords:
Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC), Polypropylene glass fiber (P), Polyethylene glass fiber (E), woven rowing glass fiber (O).Abstract
Fibre is a material which could be added in concrete to change its properties and strength. Presented in this
paper is the performance evaluation of ordinary M25 grade of concrete when reinforced with different volumes of
Polypropylene (P), Polyethylene (E) and Woven rowing (O) glass fibers. The laboratory tests for workability,
compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength were carried out for the above mentioned glass fibre
reinforced concrete specimen prepared with different water cement ratios. The results show that use of any of these glass
fibres proves to be beneficiary in terms of increase in overall strength of concrete. The optimum strength was observed in
E-glass fiber at 0.07% by volume with 0.4 w/c ratio without compromising the workability.
