• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.69-78
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• 2011

As recent concrete products changed to pursue high class, high quality, and high strength, as translucent concrete was developed to meet esthetic effects and exhibition purpose of structures. This study aims at introducing fabrication methods of various shapes of translucent concrete and evaluating feasibility of using mineral admixture such as fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag and granulated glass throughout experimental tests. As the result, it was found that compressive strength of translucent concrete block at 28 days is 32.2MPa and higher elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio than ordinary concrete block, which means that translucent concrete is widely applicable to structural purpose. Application of fly ash as a replacement of cement showed lower strength of 85 to 96% than Portland cement. In the meanwhile, ground granulated blast furnace slag showed 82 to 96% depending on the amount of replacement. The use of granulated glass as replacement of optical fiber was not applicable due to invisibility of light in concrete.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.17-18
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• 2018

With the technological advancement of the construction industry, construction materials with future direction appeared. In Korea, LEFC(Light Emotion Friendly Concrete) has been developed and studied, which has improved labor productivity and economic efficiency over semi-transparent concrete by introducing transparent plastic rods into concrete matrix. However, there is a problem in that the bending performance is lowered according to the insertion of the rod and the bending performance is different according to the light transmission direction. In this study, the incorporation of PVA fibers in the direction of light transmission was increased and the change of flexural performance according to the interval of light transmission was examined.