Mechanical Behaviors of HDPE Fiber Reinforced Cement Mortar

Abstract:

In this dissertation, we studied the mechanical behaviors of HDPE fiber reinforced in cement mortar. One of our major concerns is to study the utilization of high strength high density polyethylene (HDPE) fibers obtained from different draw ratio melt spinning processing. Another major concern is to compare these fibers in term of mechanical behavior reinforced in cement mortar. We began with the material characterization, which mainly include different draw ratios with two sets of rollers through a glyceral bath set at 113°C. Draw ratio was calculated from the ratio of the speed of the follower to leader roller. The latter studies largely used three different fiber volumes fraction ratio tested mechanical properties of cement mortar by using the universal testing machine follow on ASTM standard testing. Subsequently, we studied the behaviors of HDPE fiber reinforced in cement mortar, which mainly include the flexural, tensile and compression strength. The development of mechanical strength of cement mortar when added with these fibers were presented characterize of cement mortar.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 671-674)
• Pages: 1893-1904
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.671-674.1893
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Trithos Kamsuwan, Taweechai Amornsakchai, Toemsak Srikhirin
• Keywords: Cement Mortar, Fiber, High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Mechanical Behavior, Reinforced

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