Journal of Ceramics and Concrete Technology. ISSN: 2457-0826 (Online)

Authors: Shruti S Kubyal, Shivaprasad H

Abstract: Building energy-saving and safe evaluation for engineering structures have obtained worldwide attention. Transparent concrete is a concrete based building material with light-transmissive properties due to embedded light optical elements, usually optical fibres. Light is conducted numerical aperture Plastic Optical Fibres (POF) or big diameter glass optical fibre into the concrete. The main purpose is to use sunlight as a light source to reduce power consumption through the stone from one end to the other. Therefore the fibres have to go through the whole object. Transparent concrete is also known as translucent concrete and light-transmitting concrete because of its properties. It is used in fine architecture as a facade material and for the cladding of interior walls. Paper discusses the integration of merits of concrete and optical fibre, for developing transparent concrete by arranging the high of illumination and to use the optical fiber to sense the stress of structures. The paper discusses a new kind of building material, which can integrate green energy saving with self-sensing properties of functional materials are important for the construction industry. The evaluation of the effectiveness of the smart, transparent concrete, the light-guiding based on the white light test, long term durability and chloride ion penetration test and self-sensing property based on stress elasto optic effect test are made. The experiment results show that the smart, transparent concrete has good transparency, mechanical and self-sensing properties.