Behavior of Ferrocement Composite in Direct Tension by using Welded square mesh

Abstract-Ferrocement is a special type of reinforced concrete, as it exhibits different behavior than that of the conventional reinforced concrete in performance, strength and application. Also it is superior in qualities like crack control, impact resistance and toughness. Ferrocement has very high tensile strength to weight ratio. Due to its nature, original brittle material gets converted to superior ductile composite. This project presents an experimental study on Tensile strength and behavior aspect of ferrocement in direct tension test. For this purpose total 36 panels are casted and tested for direct tension test. The main objective of these experimental tests is to study the effect of using different numbers of wire mesh as well as by using steel fibers by keeping constant thickness on the tensile strength of ferrocement. Test result shows that panels with more number of layers exhibits greater Tensile strength as that compared with same panels having less number of layers of mesh as well as panels with fiber mesh shows less elongation. Index Terms- Ferrocement, wire mesh, specific surface, volume fraction, tensile strength, ultimate strength