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characterized by first crack and ultimate load, increasing of slab

thickness and volume fraction and grade of concrete increases the

punching shear strength and ductility of slab. Concluded that the

ultimate punching shear strength of slab specimens are compared

with the predictions of equations available in literature and code

provisions. The CP 110’s equation of British standard was reasonably

matches with the experimental values.

Yousry et al., (2013)134 conducted experiment on reinforced

ferrocement concrete plates under impact load. Twenty ferrocement

plates were cast of size 500x500x25 mm and tested with a ball weight

of 1.15 Kg under a height of 1.12 m at the centre of plate. The test

programme is divided in to steel bars, metal meshes and metal

meshes with steel bars. Concluded that increasing the number of steel

mesh layers in the plate increases energy at first crack and ultimate

failure stage and also observed higher energy absorption at first crack

and ultimate stage in steel bars with steel mesh when compared with

those of reinforced with steel bars only.

Madheswaran et al (2014)78 studied the behaviour of concrete

slab under repeated low velocity impact loading on ordinary Portland

cement concrete (OPCC) slabs and geopolymer (GPC) concrete slabs.

The compressive strength of OPCC and GPC are 49 to 70 MPa. The

slab specimens are cast with and without fiber reinforcement. The

slab specimens are of size 1000x1000x60 mm. The weight of the

impact hammer having 8.4 Kg and it is freely falling at centre of the

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slab with a free fall of 10 to 50 cm and measured the impact loading.

The impact loads are ranging from 15.13 to 48.62 kN.

Sakthivel et al., (2014)100 conducted experimentation on mesh

and fiber reinforced cementitious composite slabs of size

250x250x25mm. The slab specimens are cast with polyolefin fibers of

0.5 to 2.5% of volume of slab specimen with 0.5% interval and

compared with the control specimen. The specimens are tested with

steel ball weight 3 Kg repeatedly dropped from a height of 600 mm on

centre of slab through a pulley arrangement. Concluded that the

impact strength of the cementitious composite has increased 2 to 6.66

times and energy absorption also increased 1.36 to 2.73 times of

control specimen.

Sidramappa and Archita (2014)110 studied the flexural

behaviour of RCC slab and ferrocement slabs for cyclic loading. The

first crack and collapse load along with their deflections were

measured during testing. On comparison ferrocement slabs are to be

more ductile when compared to RCC slabs design for same moment

and flexure behaviour of ferrocement slabs were found to superior

when compared to RCC slabs.

Conclusions are arrived from the present study of the review of

literature are as follows.

The use of silica fume in concrete as replacement of cement by

15% yield good results in compressive strength, cylindrical

compressive strength and split tensile strength. Many researchers

have studied the compressive strengths, cylindrical strength and split

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tensile strengths with different silica fume percentages. Not much

literature is available on the flexural strength, punching shear and

impact on concrete slabs with silica fume. Hence, considering the gap

in the existing literature, an attempt has been made to study the

flexure, shear and impact on HPC slabs.