Effect of Bamboo Fibre on the Properties of Pavement Quality Concrete

Abstract

Abstract: In this report we discusses about the settlement of rigid pavements utilizing bamboo fibre. The study aims to examine the practicability of using bamboo as a fibre in pavement quality concrete with 0.38 water/binder ratios. This report presents the detailed amount of fibre used ranging from 0 to 1.5% with a variation of 0.5% on trial basis. Since the concrete used in pavements requires high strength because of the high volume of traffic so the concrete has been made using silica fume with 3% by weight of cementitious material and which adds to the longer life of fibre. Also using mineral admixtures makes concrete less permeable and less the permeability more durable the concrete is. Adding bamboo fibre up to 0.5% the compressive strength gets increased and beyond 0.5% of fibre addition the strength starts decreasing and as we keep on mounting the fibre percentage up to 1.5% the flexural strength also rises