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CE 5604 Advanced Concrete

Technology
FRC Part 1
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Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC)
Geometry of fiber-reinforced materials
Historical perspective
BC horse hair
1900 Asbestos fibers
1960 FRC
1970 search for asbestos
replacement
1970 Steel FRC, glass FRC, etc
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Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (FRC)
(Mindess et al 2003
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Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Fiber reinforcement is not a substitute for conventional steel
reinforcement
Reinforcing bars are used to increase the load-bearing capacity of structural
concrete members
Fibers
effective for crack control
improve behavior of concrete under blast and impact loading, in
seismic applications
ACI 544-3R-84 states
In structural members where flexural and tensile loads will occur, such as in
beams, columns, suspended floors, the conventional reinforcing steel must be
capable of supporting the total tensile load.
In applications where the presence of continuous reinforcement is not
essential to the safety and integrity of the structure, e.g. pavements, the
improvements in flexural strength can be used to reduce the section thickness
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Definitions of Some Terms
Aspect ratio
=fiber length/equivalent fiber diameter
(equivalent D is the D of a circle having the same cross-sectional area
as the fiber)
Typical aspect ratio: 50 150
Orientation factor (or fiber efficiency factor)
Efficiency with which randomly oriented fibers can carry a tensile
force in any one direction, ~0.2 to 1.0
First crack strength
Stress corresponding to the load at which the load-deflection curve of
the FRC first exhibits a significant non-linearity
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Mechanics of Fiber Reinforcement
Stress field around an advancing
crack in FRC
Traction-free zone: crack is wide
enough for all the fibers to
be pulled out
Fiber bridging zone: stresses are
transferred by frictional slip
of the fibers
Microcracked matrix process
zone: aggregate interlocking
to transfer some stress within
the matrix itself
(Mindess et al 2003)
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Controlled Crack Growth Test
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