Effect of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Aggregate on Hardened Properties of Concrete

This paper purpose of study is to find the properties of Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and compare the same with the concrete produced with natural aggregates. This thesis presents a study conducted on mechanical and durability properties of Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) aggregates concrete. The investigation covered concrete mixes at water cementitious material with ratio of 0.4. Ordinary Portland cement of 43-grade was used in this study. The percentage of Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) aggregates that partially replaced natural aggregates by weight were 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% with glass fiber The results show that the optimum replacement of Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) with natural aggregate then gain strength of concrete compare with normal mix. It is observed that compressive and tensile strength of concrete gain upto with mix 50% NA+50%RAPA+1%SF after that increase percentage of RAP with decrease both strength compare with normal mix. Keywords: RAP, steel fiber, design mix, compressive strength, split tensile strength.

Efficient Photonic Crystal Fiber Design for Higher OAM Modes with Low Loss Towards Next Generation THz Communication

A newer and efficient solid core with air holes and ring based circular photonic crystal fiber (C-PCF) design is proposed, developed, and studied. The C-PCF structure with a ring core and three layers of air holes is developed to communicate terahertz frequency of the range of 1 THz to 3 THz. Finite element method (FEM) is used to optimize the position, shape and dimensions of air holes and refractive index (RI) of material for the proposed PCF design and check the efficiency to support different orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes for communication. Our novel designed C-PCF supports multiple stable modes with mode purity above 0.9. Confinement loss is in the range of 10-12 dB/cm, highest effective mode area in the order of 1 mm2 is achieved in the investigated study for 3 THz transmission. The study observes that the performance of PCF is strongly dependent on RI of core and cladding.