Abstract

Flexural Behaviour of Partially Prestressed Reinforced Baked Clay Beams

Highlights

  • It is not affordable for low income people, in Pakistan, to construct houses made of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC)

  • The results show that the Reinforced Baked Clay (RBC) beams (i) exhibited flexural mode of failure without shear reinforcement, (ii) carried as much load as control RCC beam

  • The results discussed in this study are: compressive strength of baked clay cubes, flexural tensile strength of plain baked clay beams, load versus deflection response and crack behaviour of partially prestressed RBC beams

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Introduction

It is not affordable for low income people, in Pakistan, to construct houses made of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC). This is due to high cost of construction materials such as cement, aggregates, and steel. In Pakistan, low income people live in slums without having basic facilities necessary for living. To resolve this problem, one of the options is to utilize clay as a material of construction in plain areas of the country. Population of Pakistan in 2017 was about 207 million people. It is estimated that currently there is a shortfall of over 9 million housing units in Pakistan [2]

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