“AN EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON LIGHT RANSMITTING CONCRETE”

Abstract

Smart Light transmitting concrete is a concrete based building material with its
transparent and smart sensing properties through embedding light optical elements such as
Optical fibers. Due to "green" requirements and safe evaluation for engineering structures have
obtained the worldwide attention, in this experiment development of Smart light transmitting
concrete based on its excellent properties of transparent and smart sensing. By dealing with its
usage and also the advantages it brings in the field of smart construction, we find that it can
reduce the power consumption of illumination and use the optical fiber to sense the stress of
structures and also use this concrete as an architectural purpose for good aesthetical view of the
building.
The work presented in this project reports an investigation on the behavior of concrete and
mortar with optical fiber. A total of 45 concrete and mortar cube will be casted to study the
effect of concrete and mortar with optical fiber and to compare the compressive strength
between normal mix concrete to normal mix concrete with optical fiber and normal mortar to
normal mortar with optical fiber after 7 days, 14 days and 28 days respectively.