NOR-HAYDDIN M.

SACAR
BSA 4
 INTRODUCTION
 Translucent concrete is a concrete
based building materials having light-
Transmissive property.
 Light-Transmissive property is mainly
due to uniform distribution of high
numerical aperture Plastic Optical Fibres
(POF) throughout its body.
 Hence it is also known to be transparent
concrete LiTraCon.
 MATERIAL USED FOR
TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE
 Fine Concrete
 Consist of cement and fine aggregate such
as sand.
 Optical Fibres
 Multimode graded-index fibres.
 Multimode step-index fibres.
 Singlemode step-index fibres.
 PRINCIPLE
 Translucent concrete works Based on
“Nano-Optics”.
 These Fibres passes as much light
when tiny slits are placed directly on the
top of each other. Hence optical fibres in
the concrete act like the slits and carry
the light across throughout the concrete.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
 The Manufacturing process of
transparent concrete is almost same as
the regular concrete.
 Small layers of the concrete are poured
into the mould and on the top of each
layers, a layer of fibres is infused.
 Fabric and concrete are alternately
inserted into mould at intervals of
approximately 2mm to 5mm.
 Light-transmitting concrete is produced
by adding 4% - 5% optical fibres by
volume into the concrete mixtures.
 The concrete mixture is made from fine
materials and does not contain coarse
aggregate.
 Thousands of strands of optical fibres
are cast into concrete to transmit light.
 Smaller or thinner layers allow an
increased amount of light to pass
through the concrete.
 APPLICATION
 Transparent concrete
blocks suitable for floors,
pavements, and load-
bearing walls.
 Facades, interior wall
cladding and dividing wall
based on thin panels.
 Partition walls and it can be
used where the sunlight
does not reach properly.
 ADVANTAGES
 Energy saving can be done by utilization
of transparent concrete in building.
 It has very good architectural properties
for giving good aesthetical view to be
the building.
 DISADVANTAGES
 Concrete is very costly because of the
optical fibres.
 Casting of transparent concrete block is
difficult for the labour so special skilled
person is required.