Transparent Concrete (LiTraCon)

Abstract

Abstract: This article especially covenant with the translucent concrete and also future advantages usage of smart construction world, usages of transparent concrete is a concrete based building material with having light-Trans missive properties due to embedded light optical elements usually Optical fibers. Light is conducted through the stone from one end to the other. Therefore the fibers are need to arrange through the whole object. Transparent concrete is also known as the translucent concrete and light transmitting concrete because of its properties. It is used in fine architecture as a front of building material and for cladding of interior walls. In this report, to integrate the merits of concrete and optical fiber, for developing transparent concrete by arranging the high numerical aperture Plastic Optical Fibers (POF) or big diameter glass optical fiber into concrete. The main purpose is to use sunlight as a light source to reduce the non-renewable energy consumption of illumination and to use the optical fibre to sense the stress of structures and also use this concrete as an architectural purpose for good aesthetic view of the building. The binding material in transparent concrete which is able to transmit light by using clear resins the concrete mix. The Paper circumscribe with the need of transparent concrete at present to utilize the sunlight and for architecture technologies. The new type of concrete can satisfy the green energy saving with its own Natural properties. The work presented in this project reports an investigation on the behaviour of concrete and mortar with optical fibre. Concrete and mortar cube are casted with fibers to study the properties and to compare the compressive strength between normal mix concrete with optical fibre and normal mortar with optical fibre after 7 days, 14 days and 28 days respectively. The compressive strength of concrete samples made with different fibre amount varies from 4% to 5% . The compressive strength of translucent concrete depends upon the amount of fibre content present. The samples with fibers of 4% showed better results in comparison with the others.