Splitting Tensile Strength of Lightweight Foamed Concrete with Polypropylene Fiber

Raupit, Freccy and Saggaff, Anis and Tan, Cher Siang and Lee, Yee Ling and Md Tahir, Mahmood (2017) Splitting Tensile Strength of Lightweight Foamed Concrete with Polypropylene Fiber. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 7 (2). p. 424. ISSN 2088-5334

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Abstract

This paper presents the design mix of foamed concrete and split tensile strength of lightweight foamed concrete with the addition of polypropylene fiber. The design mix of the foamed concrete was targeted to achieve a density of 1500 kg/m 3 . Six different water-cement ratios (w/c) range from 0.30 to 0.40 were taken into consideration. Three different group of LFC with 0% PP, 0.25% PP and 0.40% PP are prepared. The optimum w/c was determined by comparing the compressive test result of different percentage polypropylene fiber. By using the LFC with optimum w/c ratio and designated amount of PP of 3:1 c/s ratios, the concrete specimens were tested with splitting tensile test to determine the effects of PP to the tensile strength of the lightweight foamed concrete. From the result, it is found that by using 2:1 c/s ratio, the optimum w/c of mix with 0% PP, 0.25% PP and 0.40% PP are 0.36, 0.34 and 0.32 respectively, while for c/s equals to 3:1, the optimum w/c are 0.34, 0.32 and 0.32 respectively. From the splitting tensile result, under a controlled density of 1500 ± 50 kg/m 3 , the tensile strength range of 0.991-2.138 MPa was observed. From the result, it can be concluded that the addition of polypropylene fiber to the lightweight foamed concrete does affect the tensile strength of the foamed concrete. However the further addition of PP will not cause any positive and significant effect to the tensile strength of lightweight foamed concrete.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > TA169.H37 Reliability (Engineering), Engineering design, Civil engineering
Divisions: 03-Faculty of Engineering > 22101-Civil Engineering (S2)
Depositing User: Prof Anis Saggaff
Date Deposited: 07 Aug 2020 08:26
Last Modified: 07 Aug 2020 08:26
URI: http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/32516

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