BEHAVIOR OF COMBINATION OF COCONUT FIBER AND RECRON FIBER IN CONCRETE

Harish Kumar, S.Anandh

Abstract: Concrete is strong in compression, as aggregate efficiently carries the compression load. However, it is weak in tension as the cement holding the aggregate in place can crack, allowing the structure to fail. This weakness had been adjusted over many decades by using a system of reinforcing bars (rebar) to create reinforced concrete; so that concrete primarily resists compressive stresses and rebar resist tensile and shear stresses and rebar resist tensile and shear stresses. It has been recognised that addition of small, closely spaced and uniformly distributed fibres to concrete would act as a crack arrester and would significantly improve the its static and dynamic properties

Keywords: fibre, shear stresses, rebar, concrete

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0404022