EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON GLASS FIBER REINFORCED GYPSUM (GFRG) PANELS FILLED WITH ALTERNATE CONCRETE MIX USING FLY ASH

There is a substantial growing demand for housing in India as the population increase rate is skyrocketing. More and more people are shifting from rural to urban areas day by day, making urban areas denser. The Ministry of Rural Development assessed that India's rustic housing lack remains at 44 million dwelling units. India's metropolitan housing lack has risen 54 percent to 29 million out of 2018 from 18.78 million of every 2012, of which 96% relates to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Low-Income Group (LIG) type, according to the gauge of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. To address these difficulties, India requires innovative, energy-effective structure materials for a reliable, quick, and tough housing strategy for development at a moderate expense. It is likewise significant that housing structures are catastrophes impervious to secure individuals' lives and properties. Every one of these worries is engaged with a maintainable and comprehensive turn of events. One such strategy to accomplish that is by utilizing Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) panels. They serve the purpose of fast construction and be cost-efficient, earthquake-resistant, best suitable for the financially Indian backward class of people and in the country's earthquake-prone regions like Gujarat. The phosphogypsum's effective disposal is achieved through the Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) panel, also known as Rapid wall. These can be used as load-bearing as well as non-load-bearing structures. To use GFRG in load-bearing buildings, M20grade concrete is used as a filling material to overcome the hurdles provided by gravity and other factors. M20 grade concrete is used in these panels to satisfy the minimum requirements mentioned in IS 456:2000.