EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF SHEAR STRENGTH OF METAKAOLIN BLENDED GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE

Research for high strength and better performance characteristics of concrete are leading the researchers for developing better structural concrete. New type of concrete have come in application in construction by using different type of fibers for achiev ing better performance concrete than the normal concrete.In the present experimental investigation a mix design of concrete M30 is tried using with glass fibres .The various proportions of glass fibers are added at 0%, 0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75% and 1% as total fiber percentages to the volume of concrete.The project aims at finding the shear carrying capacity of fiber reinforced concrete beams without web reinforcement by adding glass fibers, to check weather how much shear is resisted by fibers in beams for wh ich 15 simply supported beams were casted of size (1200mmx100mmx150mm),15 standard cylinders were casted of size (150mmx300mm) and 15 standard cubes were also casted of size(150mmx150mmx150mm) and tested to check the compressive strength of concrete. The c ast specimens were tested for the change in compression, and shear strength at 28 days for M30