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ABSTRACT
With the economic growth and science technology development, more and more large-scale
civil engineering structures such as tall buildings, underground buildings and landmark
buildings and so on are built around the world. Those buildings are isolated environments only
based on man-made lights. At the same time, most of the big buildings are built close to each
other like sky scrapers. When many buildings are stacked close to each other, they will block
natural sunlight. With the aim of eliminating these and other drawbacks, consideration has
been given to the development of a translucent concrete, which is obtained by combining the
advantages of two representative materials in construction and sensing field: concrete and
optical fiber, to develop a novel functional material that has an important value for application
in construction and sensing. This paper discusses the mechanical effects of inclusion of plastic
optical fiber (POF) into self- compact mortar (SCM) produced by special boards with
dimensions (300×150×15 mm), (300×150×25 mm) and (300×150×50 mm), with 4% POF
volume fraction content and (2.0, 3.0 mm) diameter, which could be used in many applications
(ceiling, external wall, partitions, floor tiles, etc.). The experimental results show that an optical
fiber can be easily combined with SCM but requires great care in the preparation process. The
tests results of boards indicated that air dry density ranges between (1798.0 - 2022.7 kg/m3 ) ,
flexural strength between (3.87-5.06 MPa) and flexural toughness between (0.32-0.47 MPa) for
samples at 28 days age.
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1. Introduction
The concrete currently used in the construction industry generally consists of at least cement, water
and aggregates (fine or coarse). As is well known, traditional concrete has a grayish color, and its high
density prevents the passage of light through it, which means that it is also impossible to distinguish
bodies, colors and shapes through it[1,2].
Transparent concrete is a concrete based building material with light-Tran missive properties due to
embedded light optical elements usually optical fibers. Light is conducted through the stone from one end to
the other. Therefore the fibers have to go through the whole object. Translucent concrete is also known as the
transparent concrete and light transmitting concrete because of its properties[3–5]. Translucent concrete can
be used as building material for interior and exterior walls it could reduce the power consumption of
illumination, this concrete can be used as flooring a passable surface illuminated from below. During the day
it looks like typical concrete pavement but at sunset the paving blocks begin to shine and in different
colors[6,7]. Hungarian architect, Aron Losonczi, first introduced the idea of light transmitting concrete in 2001
and then successfully produced the first transparent concrete block in 2003, named LiTraCon. However, his
transparent concrete did not have smart sensing properties In 2009, Professor Zhi Zho introduced a smart
transparent concrete-novel construction material was manufactured with POF and FBG by drilling through the
cement and mortar in order to utilize the light guiding ability of POF and the sensing properties of FBG[7–
10]. When a solid wall provides the ability to transmit light, it means that a home can use fewer lights in their
house during daylight hours. It has very good architectural properties for giving good aesthetical view to the
building. Energy saving can be done by utilization of translucent concrete in building.
2. Experimental Work
2.1 Materials
The materials include a description of the cement, fine aggregate, mineral and chemical admixtures, and
plastic optical fibers (POF) used in this research.
2.1.1Cement
The cement used was ordinary portland cement manufactured in Iraq. The cement was tested and
checked according to IOS 5:1984 [11]Tables (1) and (2) show the chemical properties and the
physical properties of cement.
2.1.2 Aggregate
Al-Ekhaider natural sand was used throughout this research as the fine aggregate. All particles greater than
600µm and smaller than 150µm were removed by sieving. Sand grading and the sulfate content were within
the requirements of the IOS No.45/1984[12] and the results of chemical and physical properties of the sand
used show that the specific gravity, absorption %, dry loose-unit weight kg/m3, and sulfate content as SO3 are
2.60, 2.00%,1595kg/m3, 0.24% respectively.
2.1.3 Water
Tap water was used for both mixing and curing of composite products.
2.1.4 Mineral admixture
Densified silica fume was used as a partial replacement of cement (10% by wt.) in this study Table (4)
shows some properties of the product where was produced by a well established Materials Company.
2.1.5 Chemical admixture
(High range water reducing) One of the generations of Polycarboxylic ether based superplasticizer, designed
for the production of SCM was used (Glenium 51). Table (5) shows the main characterization of this product.
2.1.6 Plastic optical fibers
The plastic optical fibers is PMMA (Poly Methyl Methacrylate) fibers manufactured by a specialized
company, three different types of (POF) were used 2.0 and 3.0mm. Table (6) shows the details of POF.
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Table (3): Grading of sand compared with requirements of Limits of IOS No.45/1984[12].
Sieve size (mm) Cumulative passing % Limits of IOS No.45/1984
10.00 100 100
4.75 100 95-100
2.36 100 95-100
1.18 100 90-100
0.60 100 80-100
0.30 57.3 15-50
0.15 0 0-15
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Fig.3: Details of fixing the POFs through the plastic sheets for Boards.
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Figure (7): The flexural test machine and the tested boards.
Fig. 8: Flexural toughness parameter according to JSCE SF-4 standard (Gopalaratnam et al.)[17].
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4.3 Density
According to the ASTM C1185-03[15],the average air dry density of the produced boards has been
measured using the three type of board, which are of different thickness, (15, 25 and 50 mm). All the boards at
28 days age with and without POF. The procedure of the test is as follows
1. Determining the volume of the specimen using the water displacement method. Water displacement
can be obtained per test methods ASTM C 20,in which the volume (V) of test specimen is obtained
by subtracting the suspended weight (W) as shown in Fig.9 and the saturated weight (S), as equation
(4):
(4) V = W − S
where:
V: Volume (cm3).
W: Saturated weight (g).
S: Suspended weight (g).
2. Determining the mass by drying out the test specimen in an oven at (90 ± 2°C) for 24 hours. The
density of the specimen in kilograms per cubic meter (kg/m3) using the equation (5):
W
(5) Density = × 1000000
V
Where:
W: Dry mass of specimen (g).
V: Volume ( mm3 ).
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various diameters POF (2.0mm, 3.0mm) test results are compared with reference board of the same thickness,
but without POF. Fig.10 show that the air dry density of the translucent concrete boards are (1798.00, 2011.7
and 2022.7 kg/m3 ) for board thickness (15, 25 and 50 mm ) respectively, while the air dry density of the
reference board (without POF) for the same thickness are(2038.30, 2060.4, 2155.5 kg/m 3).This range is lower
than the range of the conventional concrete densities which are of about (2300- 2400) kg/m3.The translucent
concrete board with thickness 15 mm is considered as light weight structural material ACI 213R-03[18]. This
behavior is ascribed to the inclusion of POF which is consided as light weight material hence the density
decrease on the POF content is increased.
Flexural strength (Modulus of Rupture)
These results indicate that there is a decrease in the modulus of rupture by about (32.53, 40.86 and 21.99%)
for (15, 25 and 50mm) thickness of boards respectively as compared with reference sample (without POF).
This reduction in flexural strength is due to the low modulus of elasticity and due to the nature of POF surface
which cases (debonding) and weaken the interfacial transition zone between the POF surface and the matrix.
This leads to increase the propagation of micro cracks because of the poor physicochemical bonding strength
with cement paste. This behavior is also reported by (Bashbash et al.)[19] Fig.11 shows the relationship
between the flexural strength and the thickness of board. The translucent concrete boards contain POF with a
2.0 mm in diameter have the highest value of modulus of rupture as compared with 3.0 mm.
Modulus of toughness
Flexural toughness can be defined as the area under the load-deflection curve in flexure, which is the total
energy absorbed prior to complete failure of the specimen (ACI 544.1R)[20]and(JSCE-SF4)[17].
The load - deflection diagram for all types of boards are plotted in Fig.12 and this figure shows that the
brittleness nature of the SCM which decreases with inclusion of the POF. This means that the POF increases
the ductility of the SCM leading to produce translucent concrete with a ductile behavior relation to its reference
products. It can be concluded from these figures that the reference concrete (without POF) fails suddenly once
the deflection due to ultimate flexural strength is exceeded, while, the concretes reinforced with POF sustain
considerable loads even at deflections considerably in excess of the fracture deflection of reference concretes.
The load in translucent concrete board was increased gradually until reaching a maximum load of (0.38, 0.758
and 3.66 kN) for (15, 25 and 50 mm) board thickness respectively after that the deflection was increased at a
sustained load. After that, the load starts decreasing without breaking the specimen. When the deflection
reaches 1.7 mm, the corresponding load is reduced to a minimum value (0.002kN).
2200
2100 2155.5
Density of the Board, kg/m 3
2060.4
2000 2038.3
2011.7 2022.7
1900 ref-15mm
15mm-with POF
1800 ref-25mm
1798
25mm-with POF
1700 ref-50mm
50mm-with POF
1600
Thickness of board
Fig.10: Density results for all type of translucent boards and their references
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6.95
6
Flexural Strength MPa
5
4.87 5.06
4
4.11
3.8
3
2 15 mm
25mm
1
50mm
0
Reference Board Translucent concrete Board
Fig.11: Relationship between the flexural strength and the thickness of board.
4.5
15mm with POF 2.0mm
2.5
1.5
0.5
0
0 0.5 1 1.5
Deflaction (mm)
Fig.12: Load-deflection curves for all translucent concrete boards and reference boards.
6. Conclusions
From the discussion of test results, the following conclusion could be drawn:-
1. A novel architectural material called translucent concrete can be produced by adding optical
fiber (POF) for the SCM mixture.
2. The fabrication process of standard translucent concrete requires a very high skill during the
preparation of the molds and the arrangement and alignment of the (POF) according to its
content.
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3. It can be noted that the density percentage of translucent concrete board is significantly
affected by the inclusion of POF, so the POF volume fraction and POF diameter size due to
the low weight of POF .So it is possible to produce special boards with minimum density
1798.00 kg/m3.
4. The reduction in flexural strength ( 14.28, 40.86 and 20.53%) due to the nature of POF
surface which cases (debonding) and weaken the interfacial transition zone between the POF
surface and the matrix.
5. Due to the ductile behavior of translucent concrete compared with reference samples (boards
without POF), the flexural toughness of boards ranges between (0.32 to 0.47 MPa) due to
inclusion of POF.
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