A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JUTE FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE WITH PLAIN CEMENT CONCRETE

T. Sai Vijaya Krishna, B. Manoj Yadav

Abstract: This work aims to study the behaviour of jute fibers mixed in concrete as a reinforcing material for improving the mechanical properties of concrete. Several experiments were conducted on jute fibers, jute-cement mortar and jute fiber reinforced concrete in this research. For this study, a total of 24 mortar specimens for compressive strengths and 144 concrete specimens i.e. 48 cubes, 48 prisms and 48 cylinders each consisting of ordinary concrete, 0.5%, 1% and 2% Jute fiber reinforced concrete are tested for their compressive, flexural and split tensile strengths respectively for different curing periods such as 7, 28, 56 and 90 days.It is observed that the JFRC specimens with 1% jute content, cured up to 56 days has significant improvement of mechanical properties such as compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile strength with respect to ordinary concrete.

Keywords: JUTE FIBER

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0509017