Experimental Behaviour of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Low Calcium Ferro Geopolymer Paver Block

¹ Department of Civil Engineering, Mangalam College of Engineering, Kottayam-686631, Kerala, India
² Department of Civil Engineering, KCG College of Technology, Chennai, India
³ School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

^* Corresponding author: arunapcivil@gmail.com

Abstract

The environment friendly and creative material in the construction field is the Geopolymer concrete. The two main constituents of Geopolymer are the source material and the alkaline liquids. In previous studies, alternate for alumino silicate source material as wood ash in geopolymer concrete was found and optimized with fly ash. Moreover, from the previous literatures it could be noted that, GPC had a less brittleness and energy absorbent. To improve the brittleness and energy absorption capacity polypropylene fibre and rubber fibre were added by 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1 % of volume fraction at different ratios. Further, effects on addition of polypropylene and rubber fibres of the optimized wood ash-fly ash based low calcium geopolymer were studied. In the previous study, hybridization of fibres was found out. On other hand, concrete paver block has major disadvantages of less skid resistance, less strength, less energy absorbent, less slip resistance. Hence, the research on finding an alternative to the cement paver block is needed. Ferro-cement was a wonderful technology in the construction industry which have tendency to give more strength to the structure. In this study, the low calcium ferro-geopolymer paver block for an alternate of cement paver block was proposed. Meanwhile, the ferrogeopolymer technology was used by varying the different type of meshes and different layout patterns of meshes. The optimized ferro-geopolymer paver block is going to be produced by varying the shape and size of paver block, surface texture of the paver block. The compressive behaviour, split tensile behaviour, and flexural behaviour is going to be studied for the optimization of low calcium ferro-geopolymer paver block. Micro-structural characterization is also going to be studied for the detailed understanding of inside reaction of low calcium ferro-geopolymer paver block by SEM and EDX.