Effect of Glass Fibres on Ordinary Portland cement Concrete

Abstract

Concrete is a tension weak building material, which is often crack ridden connected to plastic and hardened states, drying shrinkage, and the like. Moreover, concrete suffers from low tensile strength, limited ductility and little resistance to cracking. In order to improve these properties, and attempt has been made to study the effect of addition of glass fibers in ordinary Portland cement concrete. In the present experimental investigation glass fibers in different percentage 0 to 0.1% has been studied for the effect on mechanical properties of concrete by carrying compressive strength test, flexural strength test and splitting tensile strength test. The results have shown improvement in mechanical and durability properties with the addition of glass fibers.