An Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Translucent Concrete

This study deals with the usage of translucent concrete and also the advantages it brings in the field of smart construction, that it can reduce the power consumption of illumination and use the optical fibre can be made to sense the stress of structures and this concrete as an architectural purpose for good aesthetical view of the building. Translucent concrete is a concrete based material with light-trans missive properties, obtained by embedding optical fibres in it. Light is conducted through the fibre from one end to the other. This results into a certain light pattern on the other surface, depending on the fibre structure. Optical fibres transmit light so effectively that there is virtually no loss of light conducted through the fibre. The work presented in this project reports an investigation on the behaviour of concrete and mortar with optical fibre. Concrete and mortar cube are casted with fibres to study the properties and to compare the compressive strength between normal mix concrete with optical fiber and Normal mortar with optical fibre after 7 days, 14 days and 28 days respectivelyand concrete prisms are casted with same fibers to compare the flexural strength between the normal conventional concrete prism and the prism with the optical fiber strands after 7 and 28 days respectively.