Sustainable Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete with Carbon and Glass Fiber Addition And Its Economic and Environmental Significance

Abstract

Concrete is the most popular material in the construction sector and due to its popularity and use it has become the largest contributor to the environment also. This is primarily due to the fact that production of concrete consumes Portland cement which consumes high amount of energy and considerable CO2 emissions. It becomes mandatory to search for suitable alternatives of cement. Different kinds of industrial by-products, such as wood ash, solid waste incinerator bottom ash, solid waste incinerator fly ash, metakaolin, cement kiln dust, graphene oxide, agro-industrial by-products, electric arc furnace dust, and coal bottom ash, may to some extent replace cement and thereby reduce the environmental impact on the planet earth from the use of concrete as a construction material. Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a flowable concrete mixture which has been given viscosity through adding up of different forms of admixtures that give the composite flexibility. Because of its extremely fluid nature, this concrete can be used in complicated situations as well as around parts of complex strengthening. SCC is an extremely flowable kind of material that does not need the same amount of mechanical vibration to be put as standard concrete. SCC is non-isolating concrete that moves with flexibility under the influence of gravity, with the adjunct of super-plasticizers and viscosity modifiers.