Test and Design Methods for Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete 91

FRENCH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ULTRA-HIGH

PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETES
J. Resplendino (1) and J. Petitjean (2)
(1) Cete Lyon , Centre d’études techniques de l’Equipement de Lyon, France
(2) SETRA, Service d’études techniques des routes et des autoroutes, France

Abstract
This paper draws a brief sketch of the main features of French recommendations for Ultra-High
Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC), drafted by an AFGC work group composed
of all the private and publics organizations working on these new types of material.
The purpose of these recommendations is to give a framework for use of UHPFRC in civil
engineering. The concretes here concerned have a compressive strength over 150 MPa up to 250
MPa and fiber incorporation so as to ensure a ductile behaviour under tensile stress and to replace
the conventional reinforcing steel.
The document is based on a synthesis performed by an AFREM group, on the French Electricity
Board specifications and on the personal experience of members of the work group. It is composed
of three parts :
x A first part dealing with UHPFRC characterization giving specifications about the
mechanical properties to be obtained. This part also deals with the special checks during
production and with concrete placing methods.
x A second part which focuses on design and calculations methods for UHPFRC
engineering structures, taking into account fibers participation and structures without
conventional prestressing or reinforcing steel.
x A third part devoted to UHPFRC durability which describes influential material
properties like transport mechanisms or physical and chemical processes in comparison
with Reinforced Concrete or HPC properties.
It also includes a complete list of references.

1. Introduction

The first French recommendations for Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concretes

(UHPFRC), have been drafted by an AFGC work group composed of all the private and public
organizations working on these new types of material.
These recommendations integrates feedback from experience with the first industrial applications
(EDF Cattenom and Civaux nuclear power plants [10], [11], [12]) and experimental structures
(Sherbrooke footbridge [9], Bourg-Lès-Valence bridges [34], [35]), as well as more than 10 years
of laboratory research.
They are intended to constitute a reference document serving as a basis for use of this new material
in civil engineering applications.
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These recommendations are divided in three parts:

A first part devoted to characterization of UHPFRC, giving specifications on the mechanical
performance to be obtained and recommendations for characterizing UHPFRC. This part also
deals with checks of finished products and of the concrete as it is produced.
A second part deals with the design and analysis of UHPFRC structures, the particularity of which
is to integrate the participation of fibres and the existence of non-prestressed and/or non-reinforced
elements.
A third part deals with the durability of UHPFRC.

2. Behaviour and mechanical characteristics of UHPFRC

2.1 General
The first part of the recommendations reminds the main UHPFRC mechanical characteristics,
including in annex values given by the principal manufacturers :
· Different kinds of Ductal® concrete, including RPC (reactive powder concrete), resulting
from joint research by Bouygues, Lafarge, and Rhodia, and marketed by Lafarge and Bouygues,
· BSI "Béton Spécial Industriel” (special industrial concrete) developed by Eiffage,
· Laboratory materials are being developed by Electricité de France, LCPC, etc., but are not
yet being marketed

2.2 Effect of heat treatment

The recommendations remind the principal effects of heat treatment, from which concrete benefit
[5], but must be carried out only after the concrete has set in order to avoid any risk of Delayed
Ettringite Formation (DEF). Heat treatment therefore requires good knowledge of the setting time
and a means of checking it.

2.3 Principal mechanical characteristics

After reminding the real compressive behaviour, defined by a characteristic compressive strength
and a modulus of elasticity [6], the recommendations give a conventional constitutive law with a
yield plateau which can be used for regulatory calculations regarding ULS bending.
The recommendations also give values of Poisson’s ratio, thermal expansion coefficient, shrinkage
strain and creep coefficient without or in case of heat treatment.

2.4 Impact strength

The recommendations also account for the knowledge on UHPFRC behaviour under dynamic
loading, which has been studied through impacts on radioactive-waste containers.
The published results [1], [2], [3],[4] show that the compressive and tensile strength increase
proportionally to the load rate logarithm, as well as classical concrete. This phenomenon exists for
post-peak tensile capacity, but with a smaller increase, because of the damages brought on the
matrix in which fibres are anchored.
The recommendations enlight the principal concepts for UHPFRC calculations under dynamic
loads defined and validated by experience.

2.5 Tensile behaviour

An important part of the recommendations [7], [8], [13], [14], [15] deals with the tensile behaviour
characterized by :
x An elastic stage limited by the tensile strength of the cement matrix ftj ,
x A post-cracking stage characterized by the tensile strength of the composite material
reached after matrix cracking.
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The post-cracking behaviour is very important because it may dispense with the conventional
reinforcement in the design of some structures.
On the other hand, it is quite difficult to characterize this behaviour because it depends very much
on the mixing and placement process :
x Any flow during concrete placing tends to align fibres in the direction of flow,
x Fibres close to walls are naturally aligned parallel to the formwork. This phenomenon
ceases beyond a distance from the formwork in excess of the fibre length. The closer
component thicknesses are to the length of fibres, the greater is the effect on the effective
tensile strength of the parts,
x Preferential gravitational orientation of fibres can sometimes occur, due to the natural
behaviour of fibres in the viscous-liquid phase of concrete before it sets.

The methods outlined in these Recommendations take account of all these phenomena which are
dissociated in two approaches.
Using characterization tests depending on the type of structure studied (thin slabs, thick slabs,
beams, shells), and which can be of two types (direct tensile test or flexural tensile test), the
Recommendations give for each proposed test procedure, the transfer factors to go from test results
to an "intrinsic" curve for tensile behaviour which does not depend on test specimen size or on the
type of test used.

Once the intrinsic curve for tension is determined, the recommendations give instructions for
taking into account of the effect placement methods have on the real strength values to be
considered in calculations. This correction of the intrinsic strength curves consists in applying a
reduction coefficient 1/K representing the difference between the intrinsic curve and what would
have been obtained on specimens taken from an actual structural element.
To determine this K factor, the recommendations impose suitability tests conducted on a
representative models of the actual structure. The tensile strength measured on samples of the
testing model allow to determine the K value. The principal results of this characterization process
applied to the innovative Bourg-Lès-Valence bridges are enclosed herein with the
recommendations.

Figure 1 : Example of a UHPFRC tensile constitutive law

(case of a strain-hardening material)
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Moreover, in order to simplify calculations, the recommendations propose a simplified (linearized)

tensile-strength law such as that proposed below :

Figure 2 : Simplified tensile-strength law

3. Structural design methods

3.1 Generalities
The design methods proposed in the recommendations are based on the French codes for
prestressed or reinforced concrete (BPEL, BAEL) [16], [17] (based on semi-probabilistic limit
states verifications). The recommendations complete these design codes with specificity
concerning UHPFRC which is essentially the strength provided from fibres which allows to design
a structure without any conventional reinforcement [19], [20], [21].
For calculation, one may use an intrinsic law for characteristic tension drawn up assuming
isotropic distribution of fibres throughout the structure.
In order to integrate the actual disparity in the fibre orientation due to placement, the various
verifications are allocated an “orientation coefficient” 1/K determined by suitability tests as
explained hereabove.
The value of this coefficient depends of the studied phenomena.
As for beams, the recommendations propose two values for this coefficient :
x A local value concerning designs which propose to use fibre tensile strength in zones of
material of reduced size in comparison with the piece size,
x A global value when justifications concern a sufficiently large zone so as to limit the
effect of the local disparity in fibres orientation.

3.2 Normal stress verification

For normal stress verification, the recommendations use the AFREM method [18] which concerns
fibre concrete, and use a stress – crack width constitutive law V = f(w).
Moreover, in order to simplify calculation by using a traditional stress - strain law, the
recommendations introduce the notion of characteristic length, lc :
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f tj w
H 
E ij lc

The value of lc depends on the sectional area. For a rectangular or tee cross section, a value of lc =
2 h, where h is the depth of the section gives the same results for both methods.
3
3.2.1 Minimum fibre content and non-brittleness check
In order to guarantee sufficient ductility (in tension and compression), the recommendations
consider a minimum fibre content and a non-brittleness check, which ensures that fibres can take
tensile stress in case of matrix cracks.
The minimum fibre content is defined below :
3.10 4 f t 28
1
³ V ( w) dw t
3.10  4 0 2,5
where w is crack width in metres.
The non-brittleness check consists in verifying that the elastic capable moment Mel is within the
ultimate moment MU of the cracked section calculated as below :
x Mel is obtained with calculation for the uncracked section assuming the concrete to
behave as described by the linear elastic law, tension being limited to ftj and compression
to 0.6fcj ,
x MU is determined taking account of the strength provided by fibres. The calculation is
made with the V-w law thus obtained, or with the equivalent V-H law.

3.2.2 Serviceability limit state

The analysis for standard sections is carried out considering that plane sections remain plane, and
the concrete behaviour law detailed as below :
x The stress corresponding to a 0.3 mm crack width is taken as the basis for fibre tensile
strength,
x The law considered is limited to V bt V ( w 0 ,3 ) so as not to take account of concrete
under tension after cracking,
x The calculation law is deduced from the experimental law in the post-cracking range by
means of affine transformation with a ratio of 1/K, parallel to the stress axis, where K is
either the orientation coefficient for general effects in shell elements, slabs, or broad ribs,
or the coefficient for local effects if use is made of the tensile strength of fibres in small
areas (narrow flange of a beam, at mid span).
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Figure 3 : SLS strain hardening law Figure 4 : SLS strain softening law

where :

ftj w 0 ,3 f tj
x He H 0 ,3  , with w0,3 = 0,3 mm
Eij lc Eij
w1% f
x H1%  tj , with w1% = 0,01H , H being the height of the bending test
lc Eij
lf
specimen, H lim , lf being the length of a fibre, lc the characteristic length
4l c
V ( w 0 ,3 ) V(w1% )
x V bc 0,6 f cj V bt , and V1% , V( w) being the
K K
characteristic intrinsic parameters of the material curve,
The limit stresses at the SLS are the same as a traditional concrete in case of a reinforced or
prestressed structure (limitation of concrete compression, and steel under tension).
These checks are completed when there is no passive or active reinforcement by prescriptions
concerning crack width :
- 0.3 mm for normal cracking, i.e. H < 0,003 / lc
- 0.2 mm for detrimental cracking, i.e. H < 0,002 / lc
- 0.1 mm for highly detrimental cracking, i.e. H < 0,001 / lc

3.2.3 Fatigue cheks

Results about UHPFRC fatigue strength are limited [13]. In expectation of progress in this field of
knowledge, the recommendations propose limits for tensile stress in case of parts subject to fatigue
related to :
x min ( V bt ; f t 28 ) for frequent combinations,
x min ( V bt ; f tj ) during construction, in order to avoid uncontrolled pre-cracking of
concrete in areas subsequently under tension in service.
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3.2.4 Ultimate limit states

Ultimate plastic strain of structure reinforced only with fibres are not very significant, so that
recommendations do not allow non-linear calculation with plastic hinges if there is no passive or
prestressing reinforcement capable of withstanding forces and moments when the participation of
fibres is overlooked.
However, it may be possible to use a non-linear model using the constitutive law of the material.
For ultimate resistance calculation, recommendations propose a concrete behaviour law defined as
below.
The stress-crack width diagram is deduced from the SLS diagram by means of an affine
transformation with a ratio of Jbf applied to the post-cracking branch, parallel to the stress axis :

Figure 5 : ULS strain hardening law Figure 6 : ULS strain softening law

The following limits will be used:

x Hu = 3 ‰
w 0,3 ftj w1% ftj
x Hu 0,3  , H u 1% 
lc J bf Eij lc J bf Eij
V(w 0,3) V (w1%)
Vbcu 0,85 fC j Vbtu and Vu 1%
x
TJ b K J bf K J bf ,
Moreover, the recommendations draw back that the methods which use ultimate strains A, B, C to
calculate ultimate resistance effects are valid only when there is passive or active reinforcement. In
this case, this type of method gives pessimist results because it does not take all the fibres potential
into account.

3.3 Shear stress verification

At serviceability limit state, the recommendations propose to keep the shear stress limits of the
French code for prestressed concrete.
These limits which tend to avoid cracks in prestressed structure should not be changed for
UHPFRC.
At the ultimate limit state, the recommendations introduce fibre shear strength which complete
resistance of the concrete and the potential active or passive reinforcements.
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Moreover concrete shear strength of a UHPFRC must be taken different of a traditional concrete,
because of aggregate interlock which increases quite less than the compression strength. Test
results about this phenomenon are lacking for classical FRC [19]. Hence the recommendations
limit concrete shear strength approximately at the value obtained with a C120 concrete.
The ultimate shear strength Vu is given by:
Vu=VRb+Va+Vf
Where:
VRb is the term for the participation of the concrete,
Va is the traditional term for the participation of the reinforcement,
Vf is the term for the participation of the fibres.

Case of reinforced concrete :

1 0,21
VRb k fcj b0 d where in compression k 1  3.Vcm , and in tension
JE Jb f tj
0,7.Vtm
k 1
ftj
Vm being the mean stress in the total section of concrete under the normal design force.
Case of prestressed concrete :
1 0,24
. VRb f cj b0 z
JE Jb
In the absence of any longitudinal passive or prestressing reinforcement, these terms are reduced to
the minimum value at which shear cracks appear, with an appropriate safety margin.
The term JE is a safety coefficient such that: JE·Jb = 1.5
SV p
Fibres contribute to the shear strength with the term Vf
J bf tan Eu
where:
x In the case of fundamental combinations: Jbf = 1.3
x In the case of accidental combinations: Jbf = 1.05
x Vp is the residual tensile strength:
1 1 w lim
Vp ³ Vw  dw with wlim = max (wu ; 0,3 mm)
K wlim 0
where :
- V(w) is the characteristic post-cracking stress for crack width w
- wu is the ultimate crack width, i.e. the value attained at the ULS for resistance to
combined stresses, on the outer fibre, under the moment applied to the section.
x S is the area of fibre effect, estimated with: S = 0.9.b0.d or b0.z for rectangular or Tee
sections, and S=0.8.(0.9.d)2 or 0.8z2 for circular sections.
x K is the orientation coefficient for general effects.

3.4 Checks of zones submitted to concentrated forces

The recommendations complete actual regular prescriptions dealing with verifications of beam end
blocks (equilibrium of bottom wedge, equilibrium of the compression strut), and verifications of
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the distribution of the prestressed concentrated forces. They account for complementary resistance
brought by fibres.
We will not detail all these formulae in this paper, but only note concerning pre-tensioning, that
the recommendations take account of the fact that active-reinforcement anchorage length is quite
reduced in comparison to traditional concrete. This phenomenon tends to increase local stresses
generated by the diffusion of the prestressed concentred forces.
For most of these checks, one may use local value of K, in order to account for local variability of
the fibres tensile strength.

4. Durability of UHPFRC

4.1 Introduction
The recommendations provide the main UHPFRC durability indicators. These indicators have
been proposed by the AFGC working group “durability indicators”.
Moreover, the recommendations deal with specific indicators specific to UHPFRC, and expose
actual knowledge on fire performance.

4.2 “Conventional” aggressions and associated durability indicators

The following table gives the principal results obtained for UHPFRC compared to the values
corresponding to traditional concrete, and to HPC [25].

OC HPC UHPC UHPFRC

water porosity (%) 14 - 20 10 - 13 6–9 1.5 – 5
Oxygen permeability (m2) 10-16 10-17 10-18 <10-19
Chloride-ion diffusion
factor (m²/s)
2.10-11 2.10-12 10-13 2.10-14
Portlandite content (kg/m3) 76 86 66 0

The results presented above confirm the position of UHPFRC with respect to other types of
concrete: for all the “conventional” durability indicators, the values obtained for UHPFRC indicate
a clear improvement in durability.

4.3 Indicators associated with specific features of UHPFRC

4.3.1 Introduction
Are there any kinds of damage specifically related to the features of UHPFRC, i.e. other than the
conventional damage mechanisms that could affect it? The following questions are often asked, for
example:
x How good is the long-term stability of the admixtures used in large quantities (compared
to previous practice)?
x Possible rehydration: because of the limitation of hydration reactions due to the low water
content, there are some residual anhydrites and gypsum. In the long term, could these
grains of calcium sulphate cause swelling and microcracking?
x corrosion of steel fibres
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x chemical aggression of polymer fibres

So far all the available research and published results show that there is no real problem with any
of these phenomena, for the reasons explained below.

4.3.2 Stability of admixtures

Should a pH reduction occur, molecules of admixture can be salted out in the capillary pores of the
concrete, then can undergo alkaline hydrolysis. This does not compromise the mechanical integrity
of the concrete as it is ensured by the hydrated calcium silicates (CSH), independently of the
content of the capillary pores.
Bacterial corrosion can also affect porous concrete through surface reactions.
The absence of connections between capillary pores (UHPFRC) is a favourable factor to limit all
these phenomena.
It is deemed that the long-term stability of admixtures does not represent an important potential
risk and a few research works have been done on it. The few authors who have studied the
leaching behaviour of concretes with admixtures all conclude that the molecules are effectively
fixed in the form of insoluble compounds [22], [23], [24], [26], [27]. Only slight surface
dissolution causing salting out of a few mg/l has been observed. This conclusion has been
confirmed for admixture contents of up to 5% dry extract by mass of cement, which is three times
the typical admixture contents in UHPFRC [31].

4.3.3 Resumption of hydration

The question of possible structural swelling of HPC and UHPFRC as a result of possible long-term
penetration of water (delayed hydration) is often raised.
Some research started in 1994 [28], [29], [30] have shown the absence of osmotic processes by
which water could be “pumped” through the CSH “gel”.
This phenomenon is a consequence of the fact that the UHPFRC CSH is not really a gel but has a
nanocrystalline structure.
Consequently, far from constituting a danger for the durability of HPC and UHPFRC, residual
clinker is an indisputable advantage for UHPFRC, and it enables:
x to increase the mean modulus of elasticity of the cement paste,
x to close microcracks, by capillary condensation and formation of hydrates,
x to fight chemical aggressions by sustaining the alkaline pH level and ion concentrations
necessary for the stability of the hydrates over a distance close to the interface with the
external medium.

4.3.4 Corrosion of steel fibres

All the recent test results now available show that UHPFRC are particularly effective at
maintaining the pH level necessary for passivation of steel reinforcement, and resist to chemical
conditions in which ordinary reinforced concretes are rapidly destroyed [28], [32].
Only the environments which are extremely corrosive for concrete, such as concentrated
ammonium nitrate, manage to damage UHPFRC, and to provoke a corrosion of steel fibres
(compounding by the ammonium ion) which is faster than chemical attack of the matrix.
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4.3.5 Durability of polymer fibres

Polymer fibres might deteriorate as a result of oxidation. In addition, they are sensitive to
ultraviolet light. Because of its low porosity, UHPFRC provides a good degree of protection
against these kinds of damage.
Moreover, there are nowadays products for protecting fibres which can be directly incorporated
into the mixing to slow down and even to prevent this kind of damage [33].

4.4 Fire performance of UHPFRC

At the moment, there is insufficient data about the loss of strength depending on the temperature
rise versus time so as to establish general design rules.
In addition, some UHPFRC mixes can scale at the surface, thus need special dispositions
(polymer fibres incorporation).
All the manufacturers nowadays are eager to search about these phenomena so as to be able to
bring out a formula which can respond to detailed specifications.
Considering the present knowledge, a formula validation needs tests carried out using
standardized specimens in the case of a UHPFRC not subject to scaling, using representative
specimens of structural elements in other cases.

5. Conclusion

The "Interim recommendations on Ultra High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concretes

(UHPFRC)" constitute the first reference document serving as a sure basis for use of this new
material in civil engineering applications.
The AFGC working group may modify the document when knowledge of the material
significantly makes progress.

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