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A study on Performance of Luminance and strength characteristics of High Strength Translucent concrete
n recent years, it has become vita to construct energy-efficient buildings. Maintaining a good quality of life while simultaneously lowering the building's energy requirements has been and will continue to be one of the most difficult challenges. Due to its large population, India's business and residential sectors account for around 30% of the country's overall power usage. Thus, the goal is to develop a plan to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in buildings. An emerging innovation in the building industry is translucent concrete. It's a plan to switch commercial buildings over to using green energy. Light-Transmitting Concrete (LTC) has the potential to transform the inside of a concrete structure from darkish, boring, and greyish to bright, open, and expansive by letting natural light in through the building's outside walls. Using it may deplete energy usage in buildings by a significant amount, which is great for the environment and the economy. In this experimental study, LTC is developed by inducing 4% or 5% of optical fibre by volume in concrete mix and also to investigate the mechanical and optical properties of translucent concrete by the inclusion of 0.75mm diameter plastic optical fibre with three different densities in a cement mortar cube and incorporating Alccofine for cement replacement. The perpendicularly drilled holes on the two opposing faces of the moulding were used to weave the optical fibre. As a lighttransmitting component in the current work, a plastic optical fibre with a 0.75mm diameter and three distinct densities—5x5, 6x6, and 7x7—is used. According to this study, the compression resistance is influenced by the amount of plastic optical fibre utilised. Between 7x7 and 6x6 ( number of fibre strand in a surface area of 351896 mm2), the ideal density for 0.75mm diameter fibre to be employed in translucent mortar sample, was discovered. The 5x5 fibre density specimen, which at 28 days of age was approximately 59.93% more dense than the 5x5 density specimen, provides the strength. Above this fibre density, the additional fibre content resulted in a loss of strength and may have increased the amount of voids or gaps within the concrete sample. Despite its humble beginnings, long-term care has recently garnered widespread support among academics, and researchers have also tried to provide answers to long-term carerelated concerns through scientific research.
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