02427nam a22001697a 4500999001700000100003000017100005000047245007100097260003000168300000900198500176700207700003601974856003302010942001102043952010202054952010102156  c58711d58708  aEngr Karam Ali B. Jamali   a11MCE07aSupervisor - Prof .Dr Abdullah Saand  aExperimental Study of Cement Mortar Reinforced With Banana Fibers   aNawabshah:bQUEST,c2014.  a70p.  aAbstract

Globally, the engineers and scientist are anxious about the environment in construction industry and are facing challenge of concrete as widely used material which called upon to develop very high strength and significant workability . Efforts are being made to develop such mortar with special characteristics. Researches all over the world are attempting to develop high performance of mortar by using natural fibers and other admixtures up to certain proportion.

Therefore experimental work is carried out to check mechanical properties like compressive and tensile strength of cubes having size 4"x4"x4" (100 mm x 100 mm x 100 mm) and cylinders 4"x 8" (1OOmm x 200mm) respectively with cement mortar ratio 1:3 (Cement : Sand) with w/c ratio 0.5 and addition of banana fiber % by wt as a reinforcement to improve both compressive and tensile strengths as well as other physical properties like specific gravity, water absorption, bulk density and dry density. The conventional cement mortar was compared with banana fiber reinforced mortar mix in which banana fiber were added from 0.25% to 2% by wt with an interval of 0.25%.


Both the mechanical and the physical properties were found comparatively better than the conventional cement mortar. Compressive and tensile strength was found at 0.5% banana fiber mixed with cement mortar. At that proportion strength along with dry density become optimum and specific gravity of specimens was within limit.


The result obtained are hoped to be very useful for the researchers in understanding the phenomenon of improving tensile strength of cement mortar by using banana fiber which is waste material available in abundant to produced economical cement mortar uses considerable  improved properties.
  aDepartment of Civil Engineering  uhttps://tinyurl.com/24vjn7uj  cTHESIS  00104070aRESEARCHbRESEARCHd2018-09-25l0pMP/22-222r2018-09-25 00:00:00w2018-09-25yTHESIS  00104070aRESEARCHbRESEARCHd2023-11-30l0pMP/04-40r2023-11-30 00:00:00w2023-11-30yTHESIS