A Review on Banana Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Sustainability and usage of Eco-friendly material in the field of construction is the need of the hour. Concrete, the most widely used material is poor in ductility and is prone to crack formation due to tensile stress and shrinkage. Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), can reduce this disadvantage of concrete. Both natural and synthetic fibers are used in FRC. Banana fiber (BF), when added in small quantities is found to decrease the crack spalling, improve impact resistance, toughness of hardened concrete, and decrease permeability, and bleeding in concrete. High water absorption and less workability are the disadvantages of BF. In this paper, an effort is made to review the investigations done so far on BF to study the physical, chemical, durability properties and treatments of BF so as to be used as reinforcement in concrete.