Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

A STUDY ON TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE

Devam Manishbhai Shah, Hemil A. Patel, Nirav Vaghasia

Abstract :

 "TRANSPARENT CONCRETE" can also be called as TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE. Basically it is a type of concrete which transmit the light from one end to another end. For transmitting light we can use optical fiber. We need to place optical fiber properly so it can come out through the both ends of concrete block or panel. First of all we studied about "Optical Fiber" that how does it actually work. Optical fiber transmits light from one end to another end without loss of amount of light inserted into fiber. We also found that Optical Fiber is not Brittle Material so it will not reduce the strength of the concrete. After trying some different placing method we did not got satisfactory results. So, we made special hollow mould in which we can place optical fiber easily and in much more amount. Now, we found one difficulty that we cannot use coarse aggregate in this type of mould due to its size. So, we neglected coarse aggregate from our mix design and we used only mortar mixture with the ratio of (1:1.55)(Cement : Sand). We also designed our cubes as per the mix design of M20 and we got the strength of the cubes about M23–M25. We made cubes of (100mm x 100mm x 100mm) size as a assumption of a partition wall of 4–inch. We compared graphs of every cube after compressive strength and we got consistency in the strength of our cubes. Then we decided to make our cubes more Lightweight so we tried material called "PERLITE" in our mortar mixture. WE reduced 1kg. of weight with the use of perlite in the cube of size (100mm x 100mm x100mm). Also we got reduction in the strength of our cubes but we achieved strength of 12–15 Mpa which is acceptable. We analyzed cost of all cubes of all different mix design. < clear="all" style="page–eak–before:always;mso–eak–type:section–eak" />

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DEVAM MANISHBHAI SHAH, HEMIL A. PATEL, NIRAV VAGHASIA, A STUDY ON TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-5 | May-2018

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