Effect of Inorganic Compound on the Tensile Strength of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) Concrete

This project which is entitled Effect of Inorganic Compound on the Tensile Strength
of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) Concrete clearly comes with its main
objective(s) that is to produce the OPC concrete that has higher tensile strength as it is
generally known that concrete is strong in resisting compressive force and weak in
resisting tensile stress. Dow Coming DC520 Silane (water based emulsion) is chosen to
be the inorganic compound that is incorporated in the concrete mix and its implications
towards the concrete tensile strength and other performances are going to be discussed
in this report. The failure mechanism of concrete and theories to rectify the failure
occurrences in the concrete is discussed and explained in this report. Every step taken in
undertaking this respective project are explained in details and that includes the
literature review, planning and scheduling, experimental programs and laboratory tests
as in split tensile test and compression test. The conclusion section summarized all the
fmdings from this project while the recommendation section will recommend the
suitable measures in a way to improve this project and probably to make sure the
objective is met.