Experimental Study Effect of Using Glass Fiber on Cement Mortar | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 162-181 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rasha Salah Mahdi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Glass fiber reinforced mortar is considered as a new building material, which has different properties than those of ordinary mortar. Glass fiber reinforced concrete or mortar is usual for one or more of the following reasons. Structural such as (loading, fire, and earth quake), handling such as (to with stand stocking, transport and erection stress), and shrinkage (to with stand differential stresses). Glass fibers were found to improve significantly the tensile strength, flexural strength, and they were little affected on the compressive strength. Three mixes of glass fiber reinforced mortar in addition to the reference were selected, using glass fiber content at (1, 1.5 and 2)% by weight of cement. The tests used to study the material characteristics were compressive strength, flexural strength and nondestructive test by Schmidt hammer. These tests showed that the mortar mixed with 1% fiber content gave a higher compressive and flexural strength than the mortar mixed with 2% fiber content. The nondestructive tests by Schmidt hammer which used to estimate the surface hardness of mortar . A high compressive strength and rebound number for (plain mortar) than the compressive strength and rebound number and of glass fiber reinforced mortar for all specimens. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Glass Fiber; Cement | ||
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