On 14/11/ 2017 Master thesis of the student Shahd Abdul Azem for her thesis titled,

“Effect of reinforcing rod of reinforced polymer by glass fiber on the properties of Portland cement)”,

 has been discussed and the members of discussion’s committee are listed below

The thesis study use of polymer reinforced by fiber as an alternative to reinforcing steel. reinforcing rod are manufactured by using long glass fibers (reinforced material) and unsaturated polyesters (base material) with 1% methyl acetone peroxide by a manual process similar to continuous molding. . Reinforcing rod of the composite material with a diameter of 12.5 mm, which is equivalent to half of inch, which is more common in construction applications after many attempts of using different types of glass fiber. The surface finish of the reinforcing rod of the composite material was two types (smooth and the other rough by sand treatment to increase bond strength between reinforcing material and concrete). The results showed that the tensile strength of the composite material was high and the bending properties were acceptable at the expense of the bending coefficient. Compression strength was within a close range of all concrete samples, this is due to the fact that the concrete itself shows high compressive strength as well as reinforced concrete with coarse sand-coated material rod showing high compression resistance due to increased compression coefficient. The bending resistance of the un-reinforcing concrete is low and the reinforced concrete with the reinforcement rod of the coarse sand graded material shows a significant improvement in bending resistance as a result of increased bonding with the concrete and higher interaction from iron-reinforced concrete at the expense of bending coefficient.

This thesis had been scientific evaluation by Assistance Prof Dr Fahima Mohammed Fahad / University of Mustansiriya / Engineering College/ Department of Materials Engineering and linguistically by Prof Dr. Arkan Khalkhal Hussein / University of Technology/ Mechanical Department. The discussion of the thesis had been performed at the Fadul Attya hall, and the discussion’s committee agreed to award the student master degree.