STRENGTH AND BEHAVIOUR OF SIFCON WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIBERS

An experimental program was conducted in order to study the strength and behaviour of SIFCON with different types of fibres. The different fibres that were use d in this experiment were steel fibre and polypropy lene. The different fibre volume considered was 4, 5, and 6%. The tests that were conducted were flexural, compression and Split tensile test. In flexural test, the beam specimen of size 1 00x100x500 mm was used to study the behaviour of specimen under load. The compression test of cube specimen of size 150x150x150 was considered. Cylinder specimen of size 150x300mm was considered to verify the compressive strength and split tensile strength of specimens having different volume and types of fibres. The steel fibre used in this study was hooked end steel fibres having 1mm diameter and an aspect ratio of 50. Polypropylene fibre having length of 50.8mm was used.