TY - JOUR AU - M.Ranjitham, AU - A.Mohanraj, AU - N.V.Manjunath, AU - S.Dhivyabharathi, AU - A.Anandhaprabhu, PY - 2021/07/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Development of performance of soil cement brick using banana fiber JF - International journal of intellectual advancements and research in engineering computations JA - IJIAREC VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ijiarec.com/ijiarec/article/view/227 SP - 1760-1766 AB - <p>In recent years the great challenge in our country is to construct a low cost building. Decreasing the cost and increasing the strength is done by reinforcing the locally available fiber materials. The main objective of this study is&nbsp;&nbsp; to&nbsp;&nbsp; expose&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;&nbsp; importance&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; banana&nbsp;&nbsp; fiber&nbsp;&nbsp; as&nbsp;&nbsp; reinforcement&nbsp;&nbsp; in&nbsp;&nbsp; brick masonry. By using the agricultural materials such&nbsp;&nbsp; as&nbsp;&nbsp; natural&nbsp;&nbsp; fibers&nbsp;&nbsp; will increase&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;&nbsp; mechanical properties&nbsp;&nbsp; of brick. Nowadays engineers are attracted by fiber reinforced brick. The ultimate&nbsp;&nbsp; theme&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp; &nbsp;our paper is to review the scope of banana fiber&nbsp; in soil reinforcement brick. Banana fibers are eco - friendly and&nbsp;&nbsp; are low in&nbsp;&nbsp; cost and&nbsp;&nbsp; have high tensile&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; flexural strength. Local engineers use banana fiber reinforced composites because of&nbsp;&nbsp; its low cost and&nbsp;&nbsp; durability but on&nbsp;&nbsp; sub structural building. Our motive is to spread awareness of banana fiber&nbsp;&nbsp; as&nbsp;&nbsp; a&nbsp;&nbsp; construction&nbsp;&nbsp; material&nbsp;&nbsp; in&nbsp;&nbsp; civil&nbsp;&nbsp; engineering construction works. Compression test are done to find the strength of the material. It has been clearly noted that adding&nbsp;&nbsp; fiber&nbsp;&nbsp; will&nbsp;&nbsp; slightly&nbsp;&nbsp; increase&nbsp;&nbsp; in&nbsp;&nbsp; strength. The&nbsp;&nbsp; flexural&nbsp;&nbsp; strength&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; banana&nbsp;&nbsp; fiber&nbsp;&nbsp; reinforced bric increases when compared with ordinary conventional brick. From this project&nbsp;&nbsp; we&nbsp;&nbsp; have&nbsp;&nbsp; finally concluded that banana fiber reinforced brick is more effective than normal brick.</p> ER -