and Ramaswamy, A., Mechanical Properties of Steel
Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 19(5), 2007, pp.
Several architectural construction projects are creating high demand for carbon
fiber-reinforced concrete, for example - repairing aging bridges and buildings.
Minnesota Department of Transportation researchers last June began a four-year study of the
fiber-reinforced concrete technology at the state's MnROAD testing facility near Albertville, and are now planning to try it for the first time on a MnDOT project.
thick, steel
fiber-reinforced concrete, placed and finished in under 1.5 days, at the GM Arlington Assembly Plant.
Due to gravity, steel fibers and solid particulate matter took place subsidence during the hardening process of steel
fiber-reinforced concrete, but the distributed steel fiber hindered the subsidence of the solid particles, and it played a reinforcing role, which increased the density of the steel fiber concrete and reduced the occurrence of the original microcracks.
A large number of studies have been conducted to study the performance and advantages of
fiber-reinforced concrete in the last several decades.
Standard Specification for Steel Fibers for
Fiber-reinforced Concrete. West Conshohocken, PA: ASTM.
The behaviour of rubberized steel
fiber-reinforced concrete was investigated by Liu et al.
Analytical model for predicting response and flexure-shear resistance of composite beams combining reinforced ultrahigh performance
fiber-reinforced concrete and reinforced concrete, Journal of Structural Engineering 140(6): 04014012-1-04014012-10.
The fibers are bonded to the material to produce a
fiber-reinforced concrete that can withstand considerable stresses during the postcracking stage.
The impact of rheology on the mechanical performance of steel
fiber-reinforced concrete. In HPFRCC 6 (Parra-Montesinos, G.