scholarly journals FLEXURAL STRENGTH OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Duy Duc Ho ◽  
Chinh Huu Ho ◽  
Thanh Cong Bui
Keyword(s):  
Flexural Strength ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Conventional Steel ◽  
Steel Bars ◽  
Semi Empirical

Addition of discrete steel fibers to concrete enhances its properties, especially in the areas of serviceability and toughness. In this paper, two semi-empirical methods developed from ACI 318-05 and TCXDVN 356:2005 are proposed to calculate the flexural strength of structures reinforced with both conventional steel bars and steel fibers for analysis and design purposes. The analytical and experimental results are discussed.

Effect of Steel Fiber on Comprehensive Performance of Concrete Materials

2015 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 440-444
Author(s):  
Liang Feng Dong ◽  
Shi Ping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Flexural Strength ◽  
Frost Resistance ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Freeze Thaw ◽  
Comprehensive Performance ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Compressive And Flexural Strengths

This paper presents the results on the influence of steel fiber on the performance of concrete materials. The performance of steel fiber reinforced concrete was studied through mechanical testing, frost resistance, carbonation and impermeability testing. Experimental results showed that steel fibers can improve compressive and flexural strengths, and especially can significantly improve flexural strength. Frost resistance can also be improved, and the higher the volume of steel fibers added, the more the freeze-thaw cycles that concrete could resist. Furthermore, steel fiber can not only slow down the carbonation rate indirectly, but also improve the impermeability of concrete, and impermeability enhanced with the increase of steel fiber.

Experimental Study on Flexural Toughness of SFRC

2012 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Yong Li ◽  
Li Sha Song ◽  
Li Sun ◽  
Chen Jie Cao ◽  
Tong Xing
Keyword(s):  
Flexural Strength ◽  
Cement Paste ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Flexural Toughness ◽  
Flexural Performance

This paper introduces the test results of the flexural performance of CF40 steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) designed by the binary superposition mix design method. The flexural strength and flexural load ~ deflection curves were got from the test SFRC specimens with the different fraction of steel fiber by volume and the different thickness of cement paste wrapping steel fibers. The effects of the fraction of steel fiber by volume and the thickness of cement paste on the flexural strength and toughness of SFRC are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the flexural toughness of SFRC increases with the increase of the fraction of steel fiber by volume, the reasonable thickness of cement paste wrapping steel fibers is 1.0mm.

On axial compressive behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete confined by FRP

2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322098165
Author(s):  
Hossein Saberi ◽  
Farzad Hatami ◽  
Alireza Rahai
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Frp Confinement

In this study, the co-effects of steel fibers and FRP confinement on the concrete behavior under the axial compression load are investigated. Thus, the experimental tests were conducted on 18 steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) specimens confined by FRP. Moreover, 24 existing experimental test results of FRP-confined specimens tested under axial compression are gathered to compile a reliable database for developing a mathematical model. In the conducted experimental tests, the concrete strength was varied as 26 MPa and 32.5 MPa and the steel fiber content was varied as 0.0%, 1.5%, and 3%. The specimens were confined with one and two layers of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) sheet. The experimental test results show that simultaneously using the steel fibers and FRP confinement in concrete not only significantly increases the peak strength and ultimate strain of concrete but also solves the issue of sudden failure in the FRP-confined concrete. The simulations confirm that the results of the proposed model are in good agreement with those of experimental tests.

Experimental Research on Reinforcing Effect of Spiral Steel Fiber

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 668-671
Author(s):  
He Ting Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Bond Strength ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Cement Mortar ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Reinforcing Effect

Steel fiber has a fine nature in reinforcing concrete. This essay aims to find out the influence of physical forms of steel fiber on its nature of reinforcement. By comparing two types of cement mortar reinforced by steel fibers, it is found that spiral steel fibers have a better bond strength with matrix than straight ones. Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn that physical forms of the steel fiber play a significant role in steel fiber reinforced concrete, and the experiment also serves a rewarding reference to the application of spiral steel fibers.

Study on Retrofitting and Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Fibrous Concrete

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1676-1684
Author(s):  
Natalia Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Cement Matrix ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Abstract: Reinforced concrete structures are frequently in need of repair and strengthening as a result of numerous environmental causes, ageing, or material damage under intense stress conditions, as well as mistakes made during the construction process. RC structures are repaired using a variety of approaches nowadays. The usage of FRC is one of the retrofitting strategies. Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) was used in this investigation because it contains randomly dispersed short discrete steel fibers that operate as internal reinforcement to improve the cementitious composite's characteristics (concrete). The main rationale for integrating small discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce the amount of cement used. The principal reason for incorporating short discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce cracking in the elastic range, increase the tensile strength and deformation capacity and increase the toughness of the resultant composite. These properties of SFRC primarily depend upon length and volume of Steel fibers used in the concrete mixture. In India, the steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) has seen limited applications in several structures due to the lack of awareness, design guidelines and construction specifications. Therefore, there is a need to develop information on the role of steel fibers in the concrete mixture. The experimental work reported in this study includes the mechanical properties of concrete at different volume fractions of steel fibers. These mechanical properties include compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength and to study the effect of volume fraction and aspect ratio of steel fibers on these mechanical properties. However, main aim of the study was significance of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with fiber reinforced concrete layer and to investigate how these beams deflect under strain. The objective of the investigation was finding that applying FRC to strengthen beams enhanced structural performance in terms of ultimate load carrying capacity, fracture pattern deflection, and mode of failure or not.

scholarly journals Shrinkage and Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting SFRC With Calcium-Sulfoaluminate Expansive Agent

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changyong Li ◽  
Pengran Shang ◽  
Fenglan Li ◽  
Meng Feng ◽  
Shunbo Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Cementitious Materials ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Volume Stability ◽  
Calcium Sulfoaluminate ◽  
Expansive Agent

With the premise of ensuring workability on a fresh mixture, the volume stability of hardened self-compacting steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) becomes an issue due to the content of cementitious materials increased with the volume fraction of steel fiber. By using the expansive agent to reduce the shrinkage deformation of self-compacting SFRC, the strength reduction of hardened self-compacting SFRC is another issue. To solve these issues, this paper performed an experimental investigation on the workability, shrinkage, and mechanical properties of self-compacting SFRC compared to the self-compacting concrete (SCC) with or without an expansive agent. The calcium-sulfoaluminate expansive agent with content optimized to be 10% mass of binders and the steel fiber with a varying volume fraction from 0.4% to 1.2% were selected as the main parameters. The mix proportion of self-compacting SFRC with expansive agent was designed by the direct absolute volume method, of which the steel fibers are considered to be the distributed coarse aggregates. Results showed that rational high filling and passing ability of fresh self-compacting SFRC was ensured by increasing the binder to coarse-aggregate ratio and the sand ratio in the mix proportions; the autogenous and drying shrinkages of hardened self-compacting SFRC reduced by 22.2% to 3.2% and by 18.5% to 7.3% compared to those of the SCC without expansive agent at a curing age of 180 d, although the expansion effect of expansive agent decreased with the increasing volume fraction of steel fiber; the mechanical properties, including the compressive strength, the splitting tensile strength, and the modulus of elasticity increased with the incorporation of an expansive agent and steel fibers, which met the design requirements.

Experimental Study on Rate-Dependent of the Bending Tensile Properties for Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 1083-1089
Author(s):  
Zhang Luo
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Flexural Strength ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Tensile Properties ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Test Machine ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Rate Dependent

Extensive experimental research has been done on rate-dependent properties normal concrete, but very little on the tensile properties of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC). In this article, based on a high-speed Instron servo-controlled hydraulic materials test machine is adopted to investigate the strain rate-dependent properties of bending tensile properties for SFRC. The scheme of experiment, the works of specimens fabricating and the processes of both loading and measuring were introduced. A total of 30 beam specimens are tested. The steel fiber content is varied: 0%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 3.0% and 4.0% by volume. The experimental results were analyzed. The emphasis is put on the study of the flexural strength changes of SFRC under different strain rates. It is discovered that, with the improvement of the strain rate, increasing strength of SFRC is very obvious. While the strain rate increases from 1.4×10-4s-1 to 0.53×10-4s-1, the flexural strength increasing around 30%.

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