The document discusses steel fiber reinforced concrete and its properties. It provides a literature review on previous research conducted on steel fiber reinforced concrete. The research showed that the compressive strength and flexural strength of concrete increases as the percentage of steel fibers is increased. The conclusion is that the use of steel fibers generally increases the strength of concrete up to a certain fiber percentage limit.
The document discusses steel fiber reinforced concrete and its properties. It provides a literature review on previous research conducted on steel fiber reinforced concrete. The research showed that the compressive strength and flexural strength of concrete increases as the percentage of steel fibers is increased. The conclusion is that the use of steel fibers generally increases the strength of concrete up to a certain fiber percentage limit.
The document discusses steel fiber reinforced concrete and its properties. It provides a literature review on previous research conducted on steel fiber reinforced concrete. The research showed that the compressive strength and flexural strength of concrete increases as the percentage of steel fibers is increased. The conclusion is that the use of steel fibers generally increases the strength of concrete up to a certain fiber percentage limit.
The document discusses steel fiber reinforced concrete and its properties. It provides a literature review on previous research conducted on steel fiber reinforced concrete. The research showed that the compressive strength and flexural strength of concrete increases as the percentage of steel fibers is increased. The conclusion is that the use of steel fibers generally increases the strength of concrete up to a certain fiber percentage limit.
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Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete & Its Properties
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Shrikant Harle*1, Nitesh Tantarpale2 Department of Civil Engineering, Prof. Ram Meghe College of Engineering, Amravati (M.S.), India [email protected] Abstract
Fibers are generally used as resistance of cracking and strengthening of concrete for various purposes. From the various research papers it has been observed that the steel fibers are used in the concrete to give the maximum strength as compared to other fibers such as glass fibers, polypropylene fibers. The compressive strength and the flexural strength observed to be increased as the percentage of steel fibers are increased in the steel fiber reinforced concrete. The present work is only an accumulation of information about GFRC and the research work which is already carried out by other researchers. Keyword: Steel Fiber, cranking, strengthening.
I. Introduction Generally, Fiber reinforced concrete is a Portland cement concrete which is reinforced with more or less randomly distributed fibers and has been developed in recent years. Steel fiber remains the most used fiber of all i.e. almost 50% of total tonnage used followed by polypropylene (20%), glass (5%) and other fibers. This showed that the steel fibers are mostly used fiber for fiber reinforced concrete out of all available fibers in the market. The addition of short, discontinuous fiber had played an important role in the improvement of many mechanical properties of concrete [5]. Concrete is characterized by its brittle failure, the nearly complete loss of loading capacity. To overcome this characteristic, the inclusion of a small amount of short and randomly distributed fibers can be done. This had acted as remedy to the weaknesses of concrete, such as low growth resistance, high shrinkage cracking, low durability, etc. Steel fiber reinforced concrete has the ability of excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, shock resistance, fatigue resistance, ductility and crack arrest. They also reduce permeability of concrete and thereby reduce the bleeding of water. It is such a construction material which is investigated for more than 40 years including for pavement construction. Materials and its Properties Cement: Ordinary Portland cement (33 grade, 43 grade & 53 grade) is the most commonly used material and it should be tested as per IS 4031:1988. Fine Aggregate: Fineness modulus of it should have range of 2.5 to 3.5 while it should be noted that the silt content should not more than 4%. It should be confirmed according to IS 383:1970. Coarse Aggregate: It should be free from any unwanted materials like vegetable substances, alkalis, etc. It should be confirmed according to IS 2838 (I). Water: It should be free from any kind of impurities like vegetable substances, acids, etc.
II. Review of Literature
The experimental study [1] included finding out the optimum quantity of steel fibers required to achieve the maximum strength for the M25 grade of concrete. It showed that with the increase in steel fiber content in concrete the flexural strength was increased in large content. The result showed that at 1% of steel fibers content flexural strength of 6.46 N/mm2 while it was observed that the flexural strength of 5.36 N/mm2 was obtained for 0% of steel fibers. The experimental study [2] was carried out on the steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete (SFRSCC) by addition of different content of steel fibers. The results showed that split tensile strength found to be increased with the addition of steel fibers and the optimum fiber content for increasing the split tensile strength was found to be 1.75%. When the results were compared for SFRSCC and normal Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) the increase in compressive strength was found to be 25.75% and flexural strength as 19.47%. The study [3] conducted on the structural behavior of steel fibers reinforced fly ash concrete under the compression as well as flexure. It was observed that the use of steel fiber in fly ash containing concrete improved its structural properties like flexural tensile strength. Enhancement of flexural tensile strength and compressive strength obtained by increasing the
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The experimental investigation [6] was carried out with the incorporation of steel fibers, silica fume and cement had been shown that a strong composite was produced with superior crack resistance, improved ductility and strength behavior. The experimental results were compared with the mathematically modeled expressions. Regression analysis was of large number of experimental results were carried out and from that the statistical model was prepared. All the properties of concrete such as compressive strength and modulus of elasticity were increased by addition of steel fibers. The review study [7] was carried out for the introduction of steel fibers to obtain steel fiber reinforced concrete in sustainable and long-lasting concrete structures. The study found that the workability can be adequate to the concrete by introducing the super plasticizer without affecting the other properties.
percentage of fly ash up to 30% as well as by adding 1% of steel fiber in concrete. An experimental study [4] was conducted on high strength flowable mortar which was reinforced with different percentage of steel fibers to determine the physical properties of concrete. The load-deflection curve under a static flexural load were established and from that the results indicate that if the fiber content is increased up to 1.75%, not only the flexural strength but also the toughness indices are increased. Also the experimental results showed that by increasing the steel fibers, the density, compressive strength and static modulus of elasticity are increased. The study [5] had shown that the addition of steel fibers in a concrete improved many mechanical properties of concrete such as tensile strength, impact strength and toughness. The resulting concrete material possesses higher tensile strength, consolidated response and ductility. From the experimental data it had been proved that concrete compressive strength, fiber content and the fiber aspect ratio are the major effectual parameters for specifying the tensile strength of fiber content.
III. Results and Comparison
From the above studied research papers the comparison is done for adding varying amount of steel fibers in Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete and plain cement concrete with zero percent fiber with the same material. Coarse Aggregate (Kg/m3) -----803 1152 Silica Fume(Kg/m3 ) 55 -----32 Fly Ash (Kg/m3) -----148.5 ------
Table 1: Comparison of material contents
Author M. Ramli, et al Dr. Mrs. S. A. Bhalchandra, et al Prashant Y. Pawade, et al
IV. Conclusion From the above results and comparison it has been observed that the use of steel fibers increases the compressive strength as the percentage of steel fibers is increased but up to certain limit. While the flexural strength is also increases as the percentage of steel fibers is increased. In general it can be observed that the percentage of steel fibers should be increased in the concrete beyond two percentages. [4] with fly ash, Jordon journal of civil engineering, vol 5, no 2. M. Ramli and E. Thanon Dawood (2011), High strength flowable mortar reinforced by steel fiber, Slovak journal of civil engineering, vol XIX, no. 3, pp 10-16. Mazen Musmar (2013), Tensile strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete, Contemporary engineering science, vol 6, no 5, pp 225-237. Prashant Y. Pawade, Nagarnaik P. B and Pande A. M. (2011), Performance of steel fiber on standard strength concrete in compression, International journal of civil and structural engineering, vol 2, no 2. Vikrant S. Vairagade and Kavita S. Kene (2012), Introduction to steel fiber reinforced concrete on engineering performance of concrete, International journal of scientific & technology research, vol 1, issue 4.
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V. References [1] Amit Rana (2013), Some studies on steel fiber reinforced concrete, International journal of emerging technology and advanced engineering, vol 3, issue 1. [2] Dr. Mrs. S. A. Bhalchandra and Pawase Amiat Bajirao (2012), Performance of steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete, International journal of computational engineering research, vol 2, issue 4. [3] Falah A. Almottiri (2011), Physical properties of steel fiber reinforced cement composite made
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