Abstract
Although the polymer impregnated concrete (PIC) has such excellent characteristics as high strength, small water permeability, high corrosion resistance and no shrinkage, it has such weak points as low impact strength, no plastic range in strain and low toughness.
In the present paper, the mechanical properties of fiber reinforced polymer impregnated concrete have been investigated by using several fibers, made of glass, polypropylene and metal, and MMA-and SM-monomers. The main results obtained are as follows:
Among the five kinds of fiber examined, piano wire with 0.2mm diameter and 35mm length was most effective. The strengths of FPIC reinforced by the piano wire were 2003kg/cm2 for compressive, 536kg/cm2 for flexural, 195kg/cm2 for tensile, and 186kg/cm2 for Charpy's impact strength, whereas those of plain mortar cured in water were 593, 73, 36 and 8.7kg/cm2, respectively. And from the fact that the tensile maximum strain at the ultimate strength obtained in repeated bending test for PW-PIC beam 2500×10-6, it is deduced that FPIC-material has large toughness and has far more useful properties than PIC.
