UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT REPORT ON

TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE

B.Tech. Major -I

BY

Vijay Sandhu, 14162

Prince Kumar Mall, 14153
Saurabh Maurya, 14176
Swati Sachdeva, 14190

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
HAMIRPUR-177005, HP (INDIA)

DECEMBER, 2017
UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT REPORT ON
TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE

B.Tech. Major -I Project

submitted in partial fulfilment of the

requirements for the award of the degree
of

Bachelor of Technology

in
CIVIL ENGINEERING

By
Vijay Sandhu, 14162
Prince Kumar Mall, 14153
Saurabh Maurya, 14176
Swati Sachdeva, 14190

Under the guidance

Of
Er. Anupam Anand Bharti

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
HAMIRPUR-177005, HP (INDIA)

DECEMBER, 2017

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 CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION

We hereby certify that the work which is being presented in the B.Tech. Project
Report entitled “Translucent Concrete” in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
award of the Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering and submitted to the
Department of Civil Engineering of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (HP) is
an authentic record of our own work carried out during the period from August 2017 to
December 2017.

Signature of Candidates

Vijay Sandhu Prince Mall Saurabh Maurya Swati Sachdeva

This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidate is correct to the
best of my knowledge.

Signature of Mentor

Er. Anupam Anad Bharti

The project Viva Voce examination of above mentioned candidates has been held on …………………

Signature of Supervisor Signature of External Examiner(s)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is our pleasure to be indebted to various people, who directly or indirectly

contributed in the development of this work and who influenced our
thinking, behavior, and acts during the course of study.

We express my sincere gratitude to Er. Anupam Anand Bharti, Lecturer at

Civil Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur,
Himachal Pradesh for providing us with an opportunity to undergo conduct
our topic studies and guiding us throughout the course of project.

We also extend our sincere appreciation to our parents, provoided us with

their valuable suggestions and precious time in accomplishing our project
report.

Lastly, we would like to thank the Almighty and our class-mates for their
moral support with whom we shared my day-to-day experience and received
lots of suggestions that improved our quality of work.
Signature of Candidates

Vijay Sandhu

Prince Kumar Mall

Saurabh Maurya

Swati Sachdeva

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 ABSTRACT

Today we are living in a world where energy expenditure and environmental problems
have escalated to global scale. In today’s developed world our built environment takes
energy. Our project of casting translucent concrete aims at reducing this operating energy
by exploiting vast amount of potential energy in the form of sunlight. Another additional
feature is its pleasing aesthetics that can change the image of the concrete which is
generally perceived as dull, pale, opaque grey material. The translucent concrete was first
developed in 2001 by Hungarian architect AronLosonczi at the Technical University of
Budapest. The translucent concrete comes in precast blocks of different sizes. In Light-
transmitting concrete, which is also known as translucent concrete, optical fiber’s strands
are cast into the concrete to transmit light, by either naturally or artificially through
translucent panels. This material can be used in a wide range of architectural and interior
design applications, including cladding and dividers. The fibers in the concrete run
parallel to one another, transmitting light between the two surfaces of the concrete
component in which they are embedded. Optical fibers transmit light so efficiently that
there is almost no loss of light conducted through the fibers

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1:
Introduction……………………………………………………………….....1
1.1 Objective of work………………………………………………..2
1.2 Scope of work…………….……………………………………....3
Chapter 2: Literature Review………………….……………………………..4
Chapter 3: Material and Methodology………………………………………7
3.1 Material Required…………………………………………………7
3.2 Procedures…………...……………………………………………8
3.3 Test conducted………..……………………………………….....13
Chapter 4: Results and Discussion
Chapter 5 Advantages and Limitation
Chapter 6: Conclusion
References

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 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

Figure 1: fibre optical Strands………………………………………………8

Figure 2: Wooden mold ……………………………………………………..9

COMPLETE IT VIJUU

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 LIST OF ABBREVATION

OFC- Optical Fibre Concrete

OPC- Ordinary Portland Cement
CBR- Compression testing Machine

YE BHI KR PURA

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