Abstract
The present work majorly focused on the effect of Polyvinyl Alcohol fibers (PVA) in engineered cementitious composite concrete. However, PVA fibers are used as added to the ECC concrete with propotion of 0% to 2% of weight to cementitious materials. All the concrete samples are prepared with mix proportion of 1 cement: 1.1 silica fume: 0.36 ratio of sand/binder: 0.30 ratio of water/binder: 0.01 water reducer. whereas compressive, flexural, split tensile, water absorption and rapid chloride permeability tests are evaluated in order find out the performance of ECC with addition of PVA fibers. Thus, the results, ECC concrete has better mechanical and durability performance than conventional concrete and also its high early strength. From this study concludes that upto 1.5% of PVA fibers can be used in the ECC concrete, which has 60.12MPa and 18% of strength increment than the reference mix.
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