State Of Art Review For Transmittance Material For Solar Roadways

Abstract

Transparent concrete is a modern type of concrete that is gaining popularity in the construction industry. Today transparent concrete is in queue with the finding solution for environmental and sustainable development. It has been observed that despite of several efforts given for proper conservation of solar energy, lot of energy is wasted. Even the use of conventional solar panels on roof top is not utilizing solar energy as required. The present study is based on utilization of transparent concrete in the road. It has been found that the material used in transparent concrete is mostly plastic optical fiber for the transmission of light. Other material used for light transmission are glass fibers and epoxy resin. Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) is not costly material and the workmanship used in POF for transparent concrete is slightly tedious task. This study is an effort to study the transparent concrete that can be used in roadways. The scope of this review is to find a new material having light transmittance properties that can be used in concrete with easy workmanship and must be economical. Contemporary literature shows that epoxy based transparent concrete and plastic optical fibers may be a good option for transparent concrete in solar roadways.