PERFOMANCE EVALUATION ON LIGHT TRANSMITTING CONCRETE (TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE)

G.Ashok, B. Jose ravindraraj, S.Ramesh, R.Ramkumar

Abstract: Concrete structural components exist in buildings in different forms and shapes. This concrete plays vital role in construction industry and at present scenario it is important produce concrete structures without affecting the environment. So, to produce sustainable concrete a new development is necessary to deal with. Therefore light transmitting concrete is one option that utilise the natural light source effectively and at the same time satisfying the strength and aesthetic needs. This project deals with producing light transmitting blocks using the plastic optic fiber (pof) in cement mortar and concrete. The plastic optical fibers is embedded with concrete to be a translucent concrete. Fibres (by weight) are sandwiched between each layer of mortar and concrete and comparative study carryout on compressive strength of the normal concrete and concrete with addition of pof in different percentage. The result indicates that, compressive strength of light transmitting concrete is equal to the normal concrete strength. Light transmittance through these concrete are found to be measured by light dependent resistor (ldr). Light transmittance ability for the cement mortar blocks samples found to be 5 to 10% in and 3 to 6% in concrete blocks. The result indicates that cement mortar blocks have high transparency than concrete blocks

Keywords: Translucent Concrete, Plastic Fibre Optics, Light Dependend Resistor Etc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0503093