Impact Strength of Preplaced Aggregate Concrete Comprising Glass Fibre Mesh and Steel Fibres: Experiments and Modeling
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Significance
3. Experimental Methods
3.1. Raw Materials
- An Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) was utilized in this study, satisfying the IS: 12269–1987 [26]. The specific surface area of the cement utilized was 318 kg/m2 and its specific gravity was 3.14.
- The fine aggregate was sourced from a local natural river with a specific gravity of 2.65 and a fineness modulus of 2.41 in accordance with IS: 383–2016 [27]. An ASTM C939 [28] compliant grout with fine aggregate particles less than 2.36 mm was used. Thus, the superior gravity flow could accomplish a great flow through the skeletal aggregate. The grout was prepared with good flowability, as shown in Figure 1a.
- The dimension of the granite gravel that was employed for the coarse aggregate was 12.5 mm in size. The coarse aggregate had a bulk density of 1700 kg/m3, water absorption value of 0.56% and specific gravity of 2.69.
- In order to improve the flowability of the grout and satisfy the criteria for the efflux time, a superplasticizer called Tec Mix 640 sourced from Techny Chemy, Trichirapalli, India was used. The two doses of chosen superplasticizers were 0.3 and 0.6 percent (by cement weight), with the former being used on non-fibrous specimens and the latter being used on fibrous specimens.
- Hooked end fibre, 30 mm long and 0.5 mm in diameter, was used with a tensile strength of 1400 MPa and Youngs modulus of 210 GPa. The fibre used in this research is shown in Figure 1b.
- Grids of two-way glass fibre reinforcement spaced at 5 mm intervals and weighing 125 g/m2 per unit area were used in this study. The GFM had a density of 2.58 g/cm3, tensile strength of 3.445 GPa, Youngs modulus of 72.3 GPa, elongation of 4.8% and poison’s ratio of 0.2. The GFM roll was sourced from Virendera Textiles, Uttar Pradesh, India, as shown in Figure 2a, and was cut for a rectangular shape, as shown in Figure 2b.
3.2. Mixing Combinations
3.3. Specimen Preparation
3.4. Test Setup
4. Results and Discussions
4.1. Impact Strength
4.2. Impact Ductility
4.3. Failure Pattern
4.4. Failure Mechanism
5. Modelling of Failure Energy of PAFC
6. Conclusions
- The retained cracking A1 and failure A2 impact numbers were increased as the number of GFM layers was increased. Compared with the F-M0 mixture, the A1 values ranged from a 4 to 8%, and the A2 values from a 9.8 to 35.3%, improvement when the GFM insertion numbers increased from one to three. It is evident that the increasing number of GFM layers exhibited a higher impact strength.
- Introducing new fibre schemes in PAFC comprising higher fibre dosage in the outer layer and medium in the middle layer positively influenced impact strength compared with the specimen with uniform fibre dosage. For example, the A1 values ranged from 28 to 40% and A2 from 58.8 to 92.2% improvement when the GFM insertion numbers increased from one to three. This is attributed to more fibres in the impact region, which delays the failure by absorbing more energy.
- Adding GFM and changing fibre dosage in the outer layer of PAFC exhibited a marginal impact in increasing the ductility index compared with the specimen with uniform fibre dosage. The impact ductility index values ranged from 2.15 to 2.56 for the specimens with the same dosage of fibres for all three layers. The specimens with 5, 2 and 5% dosage of fibre from the top, middle and bottom layers, respectively, resulted in ductility index values ranging from 2.53 to 2.80.
- All non-fibrous specimens failed in a brittle manner, but all fibrous beams failed in a ductile manner. The combinations of GFM and steel fibres dramatically altered the failure mechanism of the material, changing it from a single crack to multiple cracks.
- Modeling accuracy may be shown in the strong agreement between experimental and computational measurements of failure impact energy. This model has a few drawbacks. The flexural strength may be used to compute the interfacial bond strength. This means that in order to determine interfacial bonding, the single loading point flexural strength value should be employed. This model is not subject to two-point loading flexural strength.
- Introducing three-layered PAFC comprising higher fibres with a number of GFM additions exhibited a superior impact strength which is essential for many civil engineering applications such as airport runways, industrial flooring and blast walls. Altering fibre dosage, such as by utilizing a higher fibre dosage at the outer layers and a medium fibre dosage at middle layers with the insertion of GFM between the PAFC layers, is this study’s novelty.
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Mixture Id | s/c Ratio | w/c Ratio | Fibre Dosage (%) | GFM | SP | ||
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Top Layer | Middle Layer | Bottom Layer | |||||
F0 | 1 | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 Layer | 0.3 |
F-M0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 Layer | 0.6 | ||
F-M1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 Layer | 0.6 | ||
F-M2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 Layer | 0.6 | ||
F-M3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 Layer | 0.6 | ||
LF-M1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 Layer | 0.6 | ||
LF-M2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 Layer | 0.6 | ||
LF-M3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 Layer | 0.6 |
Mixture Id | A1 | A2 | U-A1 (J) | U-A2 (J) | IDI | SD (A1) | SD (A2) | COV (A1) | COV (A2) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F0 | 5 | 6 | 102 | 122 | 1.20 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 20.0 | 16.7 |
F-M0 | 25 | 51 | 509 | 1038 | 2.04 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 9.9 | 9.8 |
F-M1 | 26 | 56 | 529 | 1139 | 2.15 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 7.7 | 7.3 |
F-M2 | 26 | 58 | 529 | 1180 | 2.23 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 8.1 | 6.9 |
F-M3 | 27 | 69 | 549 | 1404 | 2.56 | 1.5 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 5.8 |
LF-M1 | 32 | 81 | 651 | 1648 | 2.53 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 9.9 | 9.8 |
LF-M2 | 33 | 84 | 671 | 1709 | 2.55 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 7.6 |
LF-M3 | 35 | 98 | 712 | 1994 | 2.80 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 7.5 | 5.5 |
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Ponnambalam, N.; Thangavel, S.; Murali, G.; Vatin, N.I. Impact Strength of Preplaced Aggregate Concrete Comprising Glass Fibre Mesh and Steel Fibres: Experiments and Modeling. Materials 2022, 15, 5259. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15155259
Ponnambalam N, Thangavel S, Murali G, Vatin NI. Impact Strength of Preplaced Aggregate Concrete Comprising Glass Fibre Mesh and Steel Fibres: Experiments and Modeling. Materials. 2022; 15(15):5259. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15155259
Chicago/Turabian StylePonnambalam, Nirmal, Sarathkumar Thangavel, Gunasekaran Murali, and Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin. 2022. "Impact Strength of Preplaced Aggregate Concrete Comprising Glass Fibre Mesh and Steel Fibres: Experiments and Modeling" Materials 15, no. 15: 5259. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15155259