Flexural Behavior of Ferrocement panel and investigation of Pavement as Ultra-Thin Overlay

EasyChair Preprint 2892

Abstract

The goal of this research paper is to investigate the flexural behavior of ferrocement panel, and the study of using this ferrocement panel as an ultra-thin overlay in the rigid pavement. Rigid pavements have sufficient flexural strength to transmit the wheel load stresses to a wider area .As a result of the large stress distribution on the pavement over the layers, it is subjected to a crack and that can be minimized with the use of a geo-grid. The ferrocement panel is a thin structure which has a high flexural strength and ductile in nature. The size of the panel is 700*300*20mm with mix ratio of cement and fine aggregate as 1:2. For the investigation on pavement study, this panel is designed according to Portland cement association (PCA) and referred with IRC-SP-76.This specimen is tested under 2point load in flexural testing machine .Experimental ferrocement panel result is compared with the conventional panel. The test result shows that the ferrocement panel is good in flexural, and that increase in number of wire mesh layers also increase in flexural strength and thus act as an overlay on the pavement. Thus the main aim of this project is to prevent the reflecting crack on the rigid pavement. The model of ferrocement panel is done by using abaqus unified finite element software.

Keyphrases: Ferrocement, Finite element analysis., Rigid Pavement, flexural, ultra-thin overlay

@booklet{EasyChair:2892,
  author    = {Shopana Kumar and Sakthivelan Ramachandran and P. Barathidason},
  title     = {Flexural Behavior of Ferrocement panel and investigation of Pavement as Ultra-Thin Overlay},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2892},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}