COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY BASED ON STRENGTHENING OF RC BEAM USING TEXTILE FIBER AND ARAMID FIBER

Abstract

Textile fiber and aramid fiber is being used as the polymer used in the strengthening of the beam in tensile and flexure. The jute textile fiber's tensile and flexural property is compared with the kevlar aramid fiber. The jute textile fiber is readily available in the Indian market as it is been used in many other fields. The jute fiber reinforced polymer is cheap when compared with the kevlar fiber reinforced polymer. Kevlar is the material used in the armor jackets, gloves since it has great resistance except to direct contact with the ultra-violet rays. This work carries out the comparative study of the jute fiber reinforced polymer and kevlar fiber reinforced polymer in strengthening of material using the wrapping technique. The fiber is externally wrapped on the beam. The wrapping is placed on the beam and coated with the primer. The fiber reinforced polymer is wrapped around the beam in single layer with different percentages. The percentages used here in this beam are 25%, 50%, 90% in experimental and in analytical.