Open AccessAssessment of Water Permeability Test on Polypropylene based Self-Compacted Fibre Reinforced Concrete (PSCFRC)
Author(s) -
Ajay P. Shelorkar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1197/1/012080
Subject(s) - polypropylene , materials science , compressive strength , composite material , permeability (electromagnetism) , curing (chemistry) , chemistry , biochemistry , membrane
An investigation conducted to study the effect of water permeability and strength characteristics such as compressive strength of Polypropylene self-compacted fibre reinforced concrete (PSCFRC) is presented. Polypropylene fibres of lengths, 35 mm with a diameter of 0.44 mm, were systematically combined in different mix proportions to combinations of 0.2%, 0.4%, and 0.6% Polypropylene fibre volume fraction. For comparison, a concrete mix with no fibres was also mixed. A total of 72 cube specimens of 150 mm were tested, 36 each for compressive strength and water permeability at 28 and 56 days of curing. According to the findings of this study, a fibre combination of SCFRC 0.6 percent is the most acceptable fibre composition to use in Polypropylene self-compacted fibre reinforced concrete (PSCFRC) for maximum performance in terms of compressive strength and water permeability requirements together.