Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum Panel use in Building Construction

There is large growing requirement of building materials in India due to urbanization. To meet this challenge, india requires innovative and efficient building material. Glass fiber reinforced gypsum (GFRG) wall panel is made essentially of gypsum plaster reinforced with glass fiber. The panels are hollow and can be used as load bearing walls. The hollow cores inside the walls can be filled with in-situ plain or reinforced concrete. Variation of buckling load of unfilled GFRG wall panels for various widths is reported. The axial load carrying capacity obtained from the numerical analysis and the test results comparable for this load case. While assessing the axial load capacity for design under compression, a minimum possible eccentricity is accounted for. An engineering model is proposed to assess the strength of unfilled and concrete filled GFRG wall panels in multi-storied building system subjected to lateral load such as earthquake. Citation: Jay Rathod, Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering & Technology; Shyam Doshi ,Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering & Technology; Kevin Lad ,Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering & Technology; Parth Parmar ,Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering & Technology; Pratik Patel ,Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering & Technology. "Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum Panel use in Building Construction." Global Research and Development Journal For Engineering 33 2018: 47 - 51.