Study Of Hardened Properties Of Hybrid

Fibre Reinforced Concrete Using Steel And

Glass Fibres

Athira Anand
MTECH SECM
SJCET Palai
Paper ID :28

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Introduction
• Concrete is a popular construction composite due to various advantages
like long life span ,strength , low cost, flexibility etc.
• Concrete consists of numerous micro cracks formed due to shrinkage
• Micro cracks may become the source of crack propagation and result in
brittle failure
• Failure initiated is controlled by tensile properties and this can be improved
by the addition of fibres.
• Concrete in which 2 or more fibres are added is called hybrid fibre
reinforced concrete.
• Hardened properties of concrete with steel fibre and glass microfibres is
discussed here.

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Objectives
• To find out the design mix for
 Conventional concrete (M30)
• Find the compressive strength for specimens of each individual mix
• Study the flexural behaviour of prism specimen made with each mix
• Study the split tensile strength of cylinder specimen
• To study the difference between the failure pattern of conventional
concrete and hybrid concrete.
• Study the influence of addition of hybrid fibres from the test results

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Material properties
Cement –
• 53 grade PPC
• Fineness 2%
• Consistency 32%
• Initial setting time 35 min
• Specific gravity 2.75
Fine aggregate-
• M sand conforming zone 2
• Specific gravity 2.63
Coarse aggregate – 20mm
• Specific gravity 2.75

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Properties contd.
• Steel fibre –hooked fibres 50 mm length and 1 mm diameter
• Glass fibre- Alkali resistant micro fibres 12 mm and 6 mm length
Fibre Length Tensile Youngs Elongation combustibility
strength(Mpa modulus(Gpa) (%)
)
Steel 50 2500 210 4 Non
combustible
Glass fibre 12 1700 73 2.4 Non
6mm combustible
Glass fibre 12 6 1700 73 2.4 Non
mm combustible

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Materials contd.

Steel fibre Glass fibre

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Mix design
Target mean strength 31.6 N/mm2
Water Content 140 liters
Cement Content 350 kg/ m3

Fine aggregate content 758.727 kg/m3

Coarse aggregate content 1245.5 kg/m3

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Proportion of hybrid fibre
• Total volume of fibre is kept as maximum 1%

Test series Steel Glass(6) Glass(12)

C mix 0 0 0
G1 0 0.5 0
G2 0 0 0.5
S 0.5 0 0
SG1 0.5 0.5 0
SG2 0.5 0 0.5

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Specimens

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Test results
compressive strength

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32.8
32.1

29.43
30 28.02
27.3 27.91

25

20
N/mm2

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10

0
C mix G1 G2 S SG1 SG2

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Results contd.
Split tensile strength

4.5 4.24
4.12
4 3.9
3.58
3.5 3.39
3.2

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N/mm2

2.5

1.5

0.5

0
C mix G1 G2 S SG1 SG2

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Results contd.
Flexural strength N/mm2

6.96 6.88
6.6 6.7
6.4

C mix G1 G2 S SG1 SG2

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Discussion of results
• Compressive strength is improved by the addition of fibres
• Maximum increase in compressive strength is 20.5% ,for SG1
• It may be due to the influence of glass fibres .Glass fibres brought
down the permeability and shrinkage.
• Split tensile strength is also improved by the addition of fibres and
maximum increase is for SG1 which is 32.5%
• Flexural strength is also increased by the addition of fibres and
maximum increase is 39.2% obtained for SG1

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Discussion of results contd.
• Crack and failure pattern of PCC and fibre reinforced concrete have
some difference
• In PCC crack formed initially enlarges and result in failure while in
hybrid fibre reinforced concrete several cracks are formed
• Due to the addition of fibre the failure mode is transformed from
brittle to a little ductile

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Failure pattern of cylinders
• PCC • HFRC

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Failure pattern of prisms in flexure
• PCC • FRC

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Conclusion
• Use of hybrid fibre is the effective in improving the properties of
concrete
• Use of hybrid fibre is the more effective in improving compressive
strength
• Split tensile strength is maximum for hybrid fibre concrete with 6mm
glass micro fibre compared to other mixes
• Flexural strength was found to be maximum for hybrid reinforced
concrete with 6 mm glass micro fibre
• HFRC have application in pavements,bridge decks, machine
foundations etc.

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