Investigation of carbon and acrylic bre-reinforced mortars

This paper presents an experimental study on the compressive, exure,toughness and abrasion behaviours of acrylic and carbon bre-reinforced mortars. themechanical and physical properties of seven dierent composite mortars samples containingdierent amounts of textile bres were compared with reference samples prepared withstandard sand, cement and water. the characteristic properties of the mortars wereimproved by adding bre. however, this improvement is directly related to the typeand length of bre used for reinforcing the concrete structure. mortars containing bothcarbon and acrylic bre had more compressive strength. in particular, mortars containingacrylic and carbon had 32% higher compression strength than control mortars. sampleac1 produced with both carbon laments and acrylic bres has the highest compressivestrength. the brittle property of mortars can be improved by reinforcing it with carbonlaments or acrylic bres. the toughness of specimens depending on both the bre typeand the length of bres were observed.