TENSILE FATIGUE OF CONCRETE Wim POLYVINYL ALCOHOL

The project entitled mechanical properties of tensile fatigue of fiber reinforced concrete
by using polyvinyl alcohol (PV A), which involves the project to further researches and
experiments.
In the previous project, concretes of Grade 40 with dimension of 150xl50x150
mm3 were being used where the 1 % of PV A in the FRC is supposed to have the
maximum tension load compared to plane concrete and others design. To make this
project to archive the target strength, the project involves in some changes, where
concretes is redesign at Grade 30 with dimension of lOOxlOOxlOO mm3
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The works on the concrete hatching and casting have been done completely in the
late December 2007 and early of this Jannary. All of the designs are concrete contains
I%, 2% and 3% of fibers. The objective of this project is to run the static and dynamic
tests on the 60th and 90th days after the curing process for each. Therefore, for every
week, the concrete cubes have to be inspected to keep them in a good condition.