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1. INTRODUCTION
Concrete is a mixture of cement, Fine Aggregate, Coarse Aggregate and water. This
type of concrete is known as conventional concrete. This conventional concrete is
strong in compression and weak in tension, Flexural strength. So, for increase the
tension in concrete innovative materials is added to concrete there are of Admixtures,
Fibers and some waste materials which are having Pozzolanic properties.
The deficiencies of concrete such as low in Tensile Strength, brittleness, low
ductility and low impact strength. To overcome these deficiencies the inclusion of
lesser amount of short randomly distributed fibers to the concrete. From previous
experimental work the strength parameters are improved by adding fiber to the mix.
Now a days mixing of two fibers in the concrete is more common which is often
called as Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete (HFRC). Addition of two fibers in the
mix the concrete is more Homogenous and Isotropic. Therefore it is transformed from
Brittle and Ductile in nature.
Mr .Ranjith Kumar et al(2013)[1] has done experiments on strength of concrete by
adding steel and glass fibres having different aspect ratio with 2% of weight of
cement .They concluded that as the increase in aspect ratio strength also increases.
2. EXPERIMENTAL WORK
2.1. MATERAILS PROPERTIES
2.1.1 Cement: Cement used is Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) having 53 Grade as
per IS 12269-1970 cement. This cement is bought from ULTRATECH CEMENT
PVT.LTD. The preliminary tests like normal consistency, specific gravity, initial and
final setting time tests are conducted and results are listed below.
Table 1 Properties of Cement
S. No
1
2
3
4
5
Properties
Specific gravity
Normal Consistency
Initial setting time
Final setting time
Compressive strength
Test results
3.14
35%
35min
5hrs
58mpa (28 Days)
Properties
Shape of aggregate
Specific Gravity
Water Absorption
Fineness modulus
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2.74
15%
4.5
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Properties
Specific Gravity
Water Absorption
Fineness modulus
Type and Zone
Results
2.62
1%
2.5
River and Zone II
2.1.4 WATER
Portable water used for this experimental study during both casting as well as curing
of specimen as per IS 456-2000
2.1.5 STEEL FIBERS
Steel Fibers are short, discrete lengths of steel with different aspect ratio from 30-150
with different cross section. The different types of steel fibers are Hooked End ,
Crimped ,Glue Hooked and etc., In this present work we have used crimped end steel
fibers.
Steel fibres bought from KASTHURI COMPOSITES PVT.LTD Amaravathi,
Nagpur and Maharastra
Table 4 Steel Fiber Properties
S. No
1
2
3
4
5
6
Properties
Type of fiber
Material
Length of fiber
Diameter
Aspect ratio
Tensile strength
Result
Crimped
Low carbon drawn flat wire
25mm
0.5mm
50
500-750mpa
Properties
Geometry of fiber
Length of fiber
Tensile strength
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Results
Fibrillated
12mm
500-750mpa
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SLUMP VALUE, mm
97
91
84
79
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
0.5
1.5
COMPRESSIVE TEST
RESULTS
Addition of Fibers
Figure 1 Graph Showing Compressive Test Results For 28 Days
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5. CONCLUSIONS
From the above experimental work it concludes that:
1. We can see that there is improvement in compressive strength of hybrid fiber
reinforced concrete when compare to conventional concrete by addition of fibers.
There is a increase in compressive strength of concrete when we add fibers of hybrid
ratio 1.5% i.e.; 0.75% of polypropylene fibers and 0.75% of steel fibers.
2. The compressive strength of hybrid ratios 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% are36.25, 39.73,
42.52, 47.32 respectively.
3. We can observe that slump cone test result reduces gradually by the addition of
fibers.
4. The slump cone results of hybrid ratios 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% are 97,91,84,79
respectively.
5. Finally we can observe the addition of fibers with hybrid ratio 1.5% will give better
results when compared to conventional concrete.
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