EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON BEAM USING STEEL FIBER AND LATEX

This journal documents the effects of using steel fibres in Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) latex modified concrete. The study was carried out to record the different properties of steel fibre reinforced latex modified concrete such as compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength. The experimental work involves testing of four types of beams (RC), (LMC), (FRC), (LMFRC) and the beams are of 150x150mm in cross section and 700 mm in length. Ordinary concrete (RC) beam is known as Portland cement concrete. Latex Modified Concrete (LMC) beam containing optimum use of SBR 1 litres per bag of cement. Aspect ratios of steel fibers play a major role in flexure and cracking behavior. Normal recommended doses of steel fibers for most of the structural concrete applications vary from 0.5-3.0% by volume of concrete. In this project Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) beam had 1.5% of volume of steel fiber by total volume of concrete and latex modified fiber reinforced concrete (LMFRC) beam containing a steel fiber volume fraction of 1.5% with optimum use of SBR 1 litres per bag of cement. The beams are tested for flexural behavior after 7 days & 48 days