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Highlights:
• UHPFRC developed at IITH provides a compressive strength of 150 MPa and direct tensile strength of 8 MPa.
• The cost of UHPRC is made affordable by optimizing the fiber dosage and replacing costly fine aggregates with cheaper, locally available ones.
• The cost of UHPFRC developed at IITH is about two times cheaper than commercially available proprietary products.
• UHPFRC mix can be used in a variety of applications, such as bridges, long-span structural beams, columns and in off-shore structures where durability is a major concern.
• Several full-scale post-tensioned UHPFRC bridge girders were tested to understand the shear behavior.
• Design guidelines are being developed for practicing design engineers, which will promote and increase confidence of using UHPFRC for various infrastructural applications in India.
Complimenting Prof Suriya & his team on the findings, Prof B S Murty, Director, IITH, said, “Strong & durable infrastructure is a must for holistic development of any nation. Developing construction materials with improved strength using locally available raw material is a creditable stride towards realizing our dream of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. I am sure such innovation will not only benefit local development in terms of economic & efficient infrastructure but extend its advantage to the infrastructure sector globally”.
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