An Experimental Investigation on the Properties of High Volume Flyash Glass Fibre Reinforced Self Compacting Concrete

Abstract

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the designing and construction. In construction one of the main resource is concrete in the world. The concrete is day-to-day have many changes like strength, durability, shrinkage. This project deals with the self-compaction concrete with use of fibre reinforcement. The self-compacting in concrete is achieved by adding super plasticizers and glass fibres are used as reinforcement. The influence of including fly ash on the properties of self-compacting concrete is investigated. Fly ash is introduced by 50% in the total weight of cement. The water to binder ratio was maintained at 0.38%. Properties included workability, compressive strength, split tensile test, modulus of elasticity and shrinkage. The results indicate the high volume FA can be used in SCC to produce the high strength and low shrinkage. Increasing the admixture content beyond the certain level leads to a reduction in strength and increasing in absorption. Making concrete structure without compaction has been done in the past. Like placement of concrete under water by the use of term without compaction. Inaccessible areas were concrete using such a techniques. The production of such mixes use expensive admixtures ad large amount of cement but such type of concrete is low strength. To eliminate such issues lead to the development of self-compacting concrete (SCC). Usage of fibres makes the mixing of concrete complex. Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is an innovative concrete that does not require vibration for placing and compaction.