[This article belongs to Volume - 54, Issue - 02]
Gongcheng Kexue Yu Jishu/Advanced Engineering Science
Journal ID : AES-03-10-2022-327

Title : STUDIES ON POLYVINYL ALCOHOL (PVA) FIBRES CONCRETE INCORPORATING ZEOLITE
S.Thulasi ¹, R.Sivagamasundari ²

Abstract :

The results of a research study on the mechanical features of concrete involving zeolite and polyvinyl alcohol fibres (PVA) are presented in this paper. Zeolite has been used to partially replace ordinary Portland cement. Various percentages of PVA fibre have been tried along with zeolite. Desirable results (workability and strength) were obtained with 10% Zeolite and 0.3% PVA fibre. The water content was kept constant for all concrete mixtures. SP (conplast) was used to attain the target workability and strength. Mechanical features such as compressive strength, flexural strength and elasticity modulus were examined. PVA fibre volume fraction was treated as the primary study variable. Cubes of size 150 mm X 150 mm X 150 mm, Cylinders of size 150mm X 300mm and prisms of size 100 mm X 100 mm X 500 mm were cast and tested as per standard code practices to realize the effect of PVA fibres on the mechanical features of concrete containing Zeolite. The cube compressive strength increased by a maximum of 36.07%, the cylinder compressive increased by a maximum of 37.78%, the flexural strength increased by a maximum of 81.81% and the elasticity modulus increased by a maximum of 26.52%.