Abstracto

Experimental Investigation on Flexural Behaviour of Folded Ferrocement Panels

Vincent Prabakar Rajaiah, S.Dharmar, Dr.S.Nagan

Ferrocement is a thin composite made with a cement based mortar matrix reinforced with closely spaced layers of relatively small diameter wire mesh. Over the years, applications involving ferrocement have increased due to its properties such as strength, toughness, water tightness, lightness, ductility and environmental stability. Ferrocement may be cast in various shapes and forms even without the use of form work and are aesthetically very appealing. Due to their thinness, ferrocement elements can be used as roofing, flooring elements to cover large spans. The slenderness of these elements may adversely affect their performance under working loads. Hence, there is a need to study their flexural behaviour such as first crack strength, load-deflection behaviour. The present study describes the result of testing folded ferrocement panel reinforced with number of wire mesh layer. The main aim of these experimental tests is to study the effect of folded ferrocement panel using different number of wire mesh layers on the flexural strength by varying the numbers of wire mesh layers on cracking, load deflection behaviour, ductility and ultimate flexural strength. This is useful to find solutions by searching new design techniques and method of constructions