The Possibility of Enhancing the Impact Strength Property of Ferro Cement Panels by Using Waste Plastic Fibers

Abstract

Ferrocement is one of the structural materials, widely used due to its advantage from its particular behavior such as tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength. The main aim of this work was to investigate the behavior of Ferrocement reinforced with waste plastic fibers panels under impact loading. A total of 48 Ferrocement panels. With dimensions of (500×500×50 mm) were constructed and tested. 32 panels tested under low velocity impact and 16 panels tested under high velocity impact, in addition to 36 cubic specimens for testing compressive strength with dimensions (100×100×100 mm) and 36 prism specimens for testing flexural strength with dimensions (100×100×500mm). For low velocity impact test at age of (56) days, the results showed that the addition of waste plastic fibers increased the number of blows which were required to make the first crack and failure, with the increase of number of wire mesh layers. For high velocity impact test at age of (180) days, it can be noted that the area of scabbing and area of spalling decreased with the increase in waste plastic fiber volumes and number of wire mesh layers compared with the reference mixes.