Analysis of Compressive Strength of Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete Using Design of Experiments

Abstract

Although there are many studies on Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), determining the factors having the highest impact on compressive strength of fiber reinforced concrete has little attention. In this paper a full factorial L16OA design is used to analyze the early compressive strength of Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). This is to find the factors tat are significantly affecting the early compressive strength of concrete. The affecting factors were identified through Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and main effects plots considering the interactions between the factors and the compressive strength.