EFFECT OF BAMBOO FIBER IN SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE PARTIALLY REPLACING CEMENT WITH GGBS AND ALCCOFINE

An attempt has been made in the present investigation to study the effect of Ecobamboo fibers on the strength behavior of FRSCC partially replacing cement with GGBS and Alccofine. An innovative natural plant bamboo fiber where more atmospheric CO2 could potentially be sequestered and it is extracted by using mechanical method was used in this study and cement being costly, replaced by waste material GGBS,ALLCOFINE is added to produce high strength and performance concrete .A mix proportion of SCC was arrived by using trial and error method and w/c ratio was maintained constant for all the mixes. The bamboo fibres of 1% (l/d ratio=40 which already evaluated by experiment) of 4.9mm length to the weight of cement are added to the SCC which cement is partially replaced by 30% GGBS and 10% of Alcofine. The outcome of using bamboo fibers in the compressive strength, split tensile strength and the flexural behavior has been studied. The addition of bamboo fibers also made the concrete very resistive in flexure and maximum improvement in 28 days strength was observed to be 6.1 N/mm2, hence addition of bamboo fiber content increases the flexural strength in scc also with the replacement of GGBS and alccofine.