Effect of Polypropylene Fiber on the Properties of Cement Mortar

Abstract:

This thesis discusses the influence of fly ash content, fiber content and fiber types on the performance of fiber reinforced concrete, through the flexural and compressive tests on fiber reinforced cement mortar, and the splitting tensile and bending tests on the fiber reinforced concrete. The test result shows that the adding of fly ash can better play the enhancement of polypropylene fiber; the change of the fiber content affects the flexural strength of cement mortar and obviously improves the splitting tensile strength of the reinforced concrete; and the polypropylene fiber and steel fiber have different enhancement on cement mortar due to their qualitative differences.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 919-921)
• Pages: 1903-1907
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.919-921.1903
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Jun Pan*, Fei Li, Xue Wu Zhang
• Keywords: Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), Polypropylene Fiber

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