Citation
Enfedaque Díaz, Alejandro and Cendón Franco, David Ángel and Gálvez Díaz-Rubio, Francisco and Sanchez Galvez, Vicente
(2010).
Analysis of glass fiber reinforced cement (GRC) fracture surfaces.
"Construction and building materials", v. 24
(n. 7);
pp. 1302-1308.
ISSN 0950-0618.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2009.12.005.
Abstract
Glass fiber reinforced cement (GRC) is a composite material produced by the union of a cement mortar matrix and chopped glass fibers. Its good mechanical properties deteriorate with time. This phenomenon has been studied performing a tensile test program on both young and aged samples of GRC produced by using different chemical additives. Once the tests were carried out, a microstructural analysis of fracture surfaces was performed using a scanning electronic microscope (SEM). Pictures taken showed that the addition of metakaolin enables more fibers to be pulled out from the matrix instead of being broken in aged GRC samples. However, the increase in the number of such fibers pulled out did not prevent the embrittlement of GRC. Also, all the other chemical additions used did not show any improvement in the mechanical properties of GRC.
