Abstract

Use of polypropylene ropes in concrete to minimize steel reinforcement

Highlights

  • Concrete is considered to be a favorable material used in construction of building structural members

  • Steel reinforcement was considered the best material that increases the efficiency of concrete sections in tension and compression

  • K is calculated from an equation given before and it depends on the stresses induced in pp ropes and concrete because pp ropes has not the ability to withstand strains compared to steel reinforcement and it will fail before it

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Summary

Introduction

Concrete is considered to be a favorable material used in construction of building structural members. Since this material is composed of locally cheap constituents and has good strength properties to some extent. Polypropylene (PP) Ropes are the material which might help to achieve this task They can be used as fibers or as bars. The first two scientists who were working on Polypropylene were Paul Hogan and Robert Banks in Phillips petroleum scientist's organization in 1951 They were followed by an Italian and German scientists Natta and Rehn [1]. The polypropylene was widespread as a commercial production by 1957 across Europe [1] This material is commonly produced all over the world [1]

Characteristics of the polypropylene material
Experimental work
Concrete tests
When in addition of PP ropes a steel reinforcement were used in tension zone
Results and discussion
Rupture modulus
Conclusions and recommendations
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