Flexural Stress Block Development

for Polypropylene Hybrid Fibre

Reinforced Concrete

Guide
Dr. Harvinder Singh

Presented By
Gaurav Nadda(SE-1311)

Introduction
Concrete is most widely used construction material in the
world due to its ability to get cast in any form and shape.
Strength and durability of concrete can be changed by
making appropriate changes in its ingredients and by
adding some special ingredients.
Thus concrete is very well suitable for a wide range of
applications.

Deficiencies With Concrete

Low Tensile Strength.
Low Post Cracking Capacity.
Brittleness and low Ductility.
Limited Fatigue Life.
Incapable of Accommodating Large Deformations.
Low impact Strength.

Fibre Reinforced Concrete

fibre Reinforced Concrete is a composite material consisting of
mixtures of cements, mortar or concrete and discontinuous discrete
uniformly dispersed suitable fibres.
There are currently 300000 metric tons of fibre used for concrete
reinforcement. The fibre material can be steel, cellulose, carbon,
polypropylene, glass, nylon and polyester. The steel fibre remains the
most used fibre of all (50% of total tonnage used) followed by
polypropylene fibre (20%), Glass (5%) and other (25%).

Hybridization of Fibres
Hybridization means to mix two or more than two types of fibres
in a concrete matrix.
Polypropylene hybrid Fibre reinforced concrete means polypropylene
fibres is used in addition with steel fibres to reinforce concrete.

The hybridization of fibres in concrete may be done by mixing

fibres of different physical, geometrical and mechanical properties.

Factors Effecting Properties of Fibre

Reinforced concrete
Mixing.
Volume of fibres.
Aspect ratio of the fibre.
Orientation of the fibre.
Workability and compaction.

Literature Review
Ibrahim et al., (2013) studied
effects on mechanical properties of
industrialized steel Fibres addition
to normal weight concrete
at
different volumetric percentages:
0% (as control specimen), 0.50%,
0.75%, 1.00% and 1.25% . He
found there is not very significant
increase in compressive strength,
but split tensile strength increases
with increasing fibre content.

He also found that flexural

strength varies from 34% to
42%, 44% to 76% and 52%
to 100% for concrete mixes
having 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0%
volume fractions of Fibres
respectively.

Kaushik et al (2003)
He carried out experimental investigation on the
mechanical properties of fibre reinforced concrete by
adding 1% volume fraction of 25mm and 50mm long
crimpled type flat steel fibres. It was observed that
short fibres acts as crack arrestors and enhances the
strength, where as long fibres contributed to overall
ductility. They concluded that best performance was
observed with mixed aspect ratio of fibres.

Wasan I. Khalil and Tayfur Y. R (2013)

The flexural behavior of eleven 1501501950 mm ultra high performance
conventionally reinforced concrete beams containing hooked and crimped steel fibres
with different volume fractions (0.5%, 0.75% and 1%) in full and partial depths of
beams cross sections is studied in this investigation. The experimental results
show that the addition of steel fibres slightly enhances the load-deflection
relationship and ultimate load for beam specimens. The type of steel fibres has a
little effect on load-deflection behavior, ultimate moment capacity. The ultimate
tensile strength of beams has been re-derived and contributed in order to
calculate the moment capacity. The calculated ultimate moment capacity was in
good agreement with the experimental ultimate moment capacity.

Patel et al (2007): He found that the compressive, split tensile and

flexural strength improved on addition of 1.5 % of polypropylene Fibre
in the concrete.
Gencel et al (2002) conducted the split tensile strength using fibres up
to 9 kg/m3. It is found that the split tensile strength increased with
increasing fibre content fibres tend to bridge the micro cracks and
hamper the propagation of cracks. When tensile stress is transferred to
fibres, the micro cracks are arrested and thus improve the split tensile
strength of concrete.

Objectives
To study the behavior of polypropylene hybrid Fibre reinforced
concrete.
To interpret the results and develop a flexural stress block for the
polypropylene hybrid Fibre reinforced concrete.
To develop a mathematical model and design chart for analysis of
polypropylene hybrid Fibre reinforced concrete members.

Scope of the Work

Enhancing the structural properties of concrete is one of the major concerns
in construction industries now a day.
By developing flexural stress block for polypropylene hybrid Fibre
Reinforced concrete, I will find the mathematical expression for rectangular
section to find the ultimate flexural strength of polypropylene hybrid Fibre
Reinforced concrete rectangular section.
By the absence of codified design approach, the utilization of hybrid Fibre
in structural application is hindered. This study will also be helpful for the
designers and code writers

Fibre hybridization may be helpful to optimize material performance.

Planning of Work
Mix Design:- M20 grade concrete.
Casting of specimens:- By using various combinations (0.25%PP &
1%SF, 0.50%PP & 0.75% SF, 0.50%PP & 1.25% SF, 0.25%PP & 1.5%
SF).
Sizes of specimens: -150mm cube for compressive strength, 150mm
diameter 300mm length cylindrical specimens for split tensile strength
and 100100500mm beam specimen for flexural strength.
Curing:- After demoulding curing of specimens will be done for
28days.

Testing: -these specimens will be tested for

Compressive strength.
Split tensile strength.
Flexural strength.
Interpretation of Results: - From the results develop flexural
stress block for polypropylene hybrid Fibre Reinforced
concrete. And using flexural stress block develop
mathematical expression to find the ultimate flexural
strength of polypropylene hybrid Fibre Reinforced concrete

Thank
You