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This document discusses the use of fiber as an alternative to steel reinforcement in concrete. It provides an overview of different types of fibers that can be used, including steel and polypropylene fibers, and how they improve properties of concrete like tensile strength and cracking resistance. The document also compares the tensile, flexural, and compressive strengths of fiber reinforced concrete to plain reinforced concrete.

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Project Report

This document discusses the use of fiber as an alternative to steel reinforcement in concrete. It provides an overview of different types of fibers that can be used, including steel and polypropylene fibers, and how they improve properties of concrete like tensile strength and cracking resistance. The document also compares the tensile, flexural, and compressive strengths of fiber reinforced concrete to plain reinforced concrete.

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Malik Zain
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Abstract

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction material since the early 1800’s. It has
been known that the concrete is week in tension and strong in compression. Weak tensile
strength combined with brittle behavior result in the sudden tensile failure without warning
that is obviously not desirable for any construction material. Thus, concrete required some
form of tensile reinforcement to compensate its brittle behavior, improve tensile strength and
strain capacity to be used in any construction. Historically steel is used for tensile
reinforcement in concrete. Unlike reinforcement bar are specifically designed and placed in
tensile zone of concrete member.
Worldwide, a great deal of research is currently been conducted concerning the use of fiber in
concrete as an alternative for steel. Fiber are considered to be a promising alternative to steel
reinforcement, especially in concrete structure. Unlike steel, Fibers are thin short and
distributed randomly throughout the concrete member. Fibers are commercially available and
manufactured from steel, plastic (monofilament), glass and other natural material (e.g., Straw,
horse hairs, coconut coir’s). Fiber Reinforced concrete, FRC is a concrete mix which utilize
fibrous material as a reinforcement. These Randomly Oriented, uniformly distributed fiber
exhibit a variety of properties when mixed with concrete. Fiber reinforced concrete give
different Tensile, Flexural and Compression properties of concrete as compared to PCC and
RCC. The Report show the tensile, flexural and compressive properties of Steel and
Polypropylene Fiber concrete as compared to Plain Reinforced concrete.
Steel fibers are discrete, short length of steel having ratio of its length to diameter with any of
the several cross-sections and that are sufficiently small to be easily and randomly dispersed
in fresh concrete mix using conventional mixing procedure. Steel fibers improve durability to
control cracking and lower deflection. Polypropylene is a thermoplastic polymer utilized as a
part of wide assortment of use. Polypropylene fibers in concrete mix design used for multiple
purpose that includes rigid pavement, self-compacting concrete and other applications.
Polypropylene increase the water tightness that reduce crack.
After carefully testing the material required for concrete, we moved to comparison between
FRC and PCC. This is a preliminary step required to set a base to decide whether we use PCC
or FRC by comparison of their different properties e.g., Tensile, Flexural and Compressive
Strength of Fiber reinforced concrete with Plain Reinforced Concrete.
This Document provides guidelines on how Fiber may be used in concrete, although further
research is required in this field to understand the effect of these fibers in detail. This
document will provide preliminary step in how to use Fiber in simple PCC concrete and what
will be come in comparison with the outcome of the Fiber Reinforced Concrete, FRC with
Plain Reinforced Concrete, PCC.

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