Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete using Basalt Fiber

Concrete is most widely used construction material in the world.Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) is a concrete in which small and discontinuous fibers are dispersed uniformly.The fibers used in FRC may be of different materials like Basalt, steel, G.I., carbon, glass, polypropylene, etc.The addition of these fibers into concrete mass can dramatically increase the compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength of concrete.FRC has found many applications in civil engineering field.Here basalt fiber is used as a strengthening agent in normal plain cement concrete to find the compressive strength, Tensile strength and flexural strength.Based on the laboratory experiment on fiber reinforced concrete (FRC), cube, cylinder and beam specimens have been designed with Basalt fiber reinforced concrete (BFRC) containing fibres of 0%, 1%, 2%, and 3% by total weight of cement in specimen of 18mm cut length were used without admixture.Then the compressive strength, Tensile strength and flexural strength result of FRC is compared with plain M 20 grade concrete.