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Jun 2026
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1-7
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Civil Engineering Department
P.E.S College of Engineering, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, M.S.
Civil Engineering Department
P.E.S College of Engineering, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, M.S.
Civil Engineering Department
P.E.S College of Engineering, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, M.S.
The advancement of the building industry is associated with continuous research, development and design of new and improved materials and construction of structures. The construction of mega structures requires materials with increasingly improved properties, particularly strength, stiffness, toughness, ductility, durability & chemical resistance to various aggressive media. The conventional plain concrete possesses high compressive strength, low tensile strength, poor impact strength, ductility and little resistance to cracking and poor resistance to chemical attack. So it is necessary to overcome these drawbacks of concrete. Continuous research by concrete technologist to understand, improve, and develop a property of concrete has resulted in a new type of concrete known as fiber reinforced concrete. FRC is a relatively new composite material in which fibers are introduced in the matrix as micro reinforcement, so as to improve the tensile, cracking and other properties of concrete. In this project we used Basalt Fiber Reinforced Concrete (0.5% to 1.5%) & Silica Fume (10%) in concrete to check mechanical properties.
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The wet and dry density at 28 days has increased marginally for fiber reinforced concrete over normal concrete. This may be due to partial cement replacement by silica fume, which densifies the concrete because of its micro-filler effect due to the relatively finer particle size.However, maximum gain in strength of concrete is found to depend upon the amount of fiber content. The optimum fiber content to impart maximum gain in various strengths varies with type of the strengths.The optimum percentage fiber volume fraction for compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile strength is 1.5% while for bond strength is 2.0%. Satisfactory workability was maintained with increasing volume fraction of fibers by using super-plasticizer.With increasing fiber content, mode of failure was changed from brittle to ductile failure when subjected to compression and bending.The strength models developed for BFRMC predicts the results of various strengths which are in good compliance with experimental results.
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