• Mohd kashif khan
• Aditya Pathak

This study has been done to analyze the change in strength, ductility and crack control behavior of Reinforced concrete beam when it is strengthened with steel and basalt reinforcement and Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) layer at the bottom of the beam. In order to investigate the influence, different thickness of ECC layer is casted, 25mm, 35mm, and 45mm. In order to check all the behavior, the enhanced beams are compared to the regular Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) Beams with same dimension and rebar position. Specimens are tested in two-point bending and the crack patterns are seen. The experimental result shows that in steel rebar and ECC enhanced beams the cracks starts to appear on later stage as compared to regular RCC beams. In case of basalt rebar ECC enhanced beam there are very minor cracks develop at initial stage in concrete section, not in ECC section, on further loading cracks starts to develop in ECC layer, after removing the load the beam comes back to its original position, now both using ECC layer and basalt rebar in concrete beam increases the bond strength, overall load carrying capacity and first crack load can be concluded. To summarize, applying ECC layer can reduce the crack width and delays the initial cracking time and makes cracks uniformly distributed in beams.

Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymer (BFRP), Strain Hardening Cementitious Composite (SHCC), Engineered cementitious composite (ECC), Ductility, Anti-corrosion bars.

"FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM WITH A LAYER OF ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE IN THE TENSION ZONE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.263-268, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904L37.pdf

"FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM WITH A LAYER OF ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE IN THE TENSION ZONE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp263-268, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904L37.pdf