RESEARCH ARTICLE
Light Transmitting Lightweight Concrete with Transparent Plastic Bar
Byoungil Kim*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 615
Last Page: 626
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-11-615
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501711010615
Article History:
Received Date: 04/04/2017Revision Received Date: 11/06/2017
Acceptance Date: 22/06/2017
Electronic publication date: 31/07/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
The ENV model proposed by TRIZ secured light transmission by replacing the existing costly transparent optical fibers with low-cost transparent materials with improved constructability, and improved the production method by changing the existing labor-intensive method of laying thousands or tens of thousands of optical fibers into a labor-saving system capable of mass production, which involves the use of a large external multi-porous mold.
Results and Conclusion:
The application of plastic based bar against optical fiber showed that the light transmitting ability was almost equal as well as the convenience of making light transmitting concrete. Additionally, the difficulties coming from heavy weight of trial product for material preparation, transportation, and processing process were tried to solve by applying lightweight aggregate and light foaming agent while maintaining minimum compressive strength.