Innovative low cost fibre-reinforced concrete—Part I: Mechanical and durability properties

Adequate mechanical properties of concrete delay formation of cracks due to traffic load, temperature-induced thermal stresses, freeze-thaw damage, water infiltration, ageing effects, and so forth. With the progress of analysis, it became obvious that incorporation of rubber particles (5 percent of the total volume of aggregate) causes minimum reduction if correlation is done with the mixture containing the air entraining admixture only (Fig. 1).