scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on the Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninghui Liang ◽  
Xiufei You ◽  
Ru Yan ◽  
Qingxu Miao ◽  
Xinrong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Constitutive Equation ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Hybrid Effect ◽  
Effect Function ◽  
Roller Compacted Concrete ◽  
Multi Scale

AbstractTo explore the effect of multi-scale polypropylene fiber (PPF) hybridization on the mechanical properties of roller-compacted concrete (RCC), the early-age (3, 7, 14, 28 days) compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and uniaxial tensile test of RCC reinforced with micro-, macro- and hybrid polypropylene fibers were investigated. Then, the tensile stress–strain curve of polypropylene fiber-reinforced roller-compacted concrete (PFRCC) and the corresponding tensile parameters were obtained. The uniaxial tensile constitutive equation of PFRCC and fiber hybrid effect function was also proposed. Finally, the enhancement mechanism of fiber hybridization on mechanical properties of RCC was analyzed. The results indicated that the strength and toughness of PFRCC improved with the incorporation of PPF, showing obvious plastic failure characteristics of PFRCC. Before curing the concrete for 7 days, micro-PPF played a major role in strengthening RCC, while macro-PPF played a major role in reinforcing concrete after that. Moreover, the tensile strength and toughness indexes of multi-scale PFRCC performed the best, indicating the positive hybridization of three types of PPF. The proposed PFRCC uniaxial tensile constitutive equation and fiber hybrid effect function based on existing researches were also well matched with the experimental results.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Quaternary Cement Concrete

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 155892501501000
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kanagavel ◽  
K. Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Cement Concrete ◽  
Split Tensile Strength ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Mechanical properties of quaternary blending cement concrete reinforced with hybrid fibers are evaluated in this experimental study. The steel fibers were added at volume fractions of 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5 % and polypropylene fibers were added at 0.25% and 0.5% by weight of cementitious materials in the concrete mix individually and in hybrid form to determine the compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance for all the mixes. The experimental results revealed that fiber addition improves the mechanical properties and also the ductility and energy absorption of the concrete. The results also demonstrate that the hybrid steel – polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete performs better in compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance than mono steel and mono polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Quaternary Cement Concrete

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 155892501601100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kanagavel ◽  
K. Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Cement Concrete ◽  
Split Tensile Strength ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Mechanical properties of quaternary blending cement concrete reinforced with hybrid fibers are evaluated in this experimental study. The steel fibers were added at volume fractions of 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5 % and polypropylene fibers were added at 0.25% and 0.5% by weight of cementitious materials in the concrete mix individually and in hybrid form to determine the compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance for all the mixes. The experimental results revealed that fiber addition improves the mechanical properties and also the ductility and energy absorption of the concrete. The results also demonstrate that the hybrid steel – polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete performs better in compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance than mono steel and mono polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete.

scholarly journals Uniaxial Tensile Behavior, Flexural Properties, Empirical Calculation and Microstructure of Multi-Scale Fiber Reinforced Cement-Based Material at Elevated Temperature

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1827
Author(s):  
Li Li ◽  
Mehran Khan ◽  
Chengying Bai ◽  
Ke Shi
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Tensile Properties ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
Cement Matrix ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Flexural Properties ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Reinforced Cement

Fire is one of the most unfavorable conditions that cement-based composites can face during their service lives. The uniaxial tensile and flexural tensile properties of the steel-polyvinyl alcohol fiber-calcium carbonate whisker (CW) multi-scale fiber reinforced cement matrix composites (MSFRCs) under high temperatures are studied, including strength, deformation capacity, energy dissipation capacity, and its ability to be assessed through the empirical calculation method. The study showed that with the increase of the treatment temperature, the MSFRC residual bending strength, bending toughness, and tensile strength decreased overall, but the decline was slow at 600 °C. The peak flexural deflection and peak tensile strain of MSFRC first reduced and then increased with the increase of the temperature. As the temperature increased, the nominal stiffness of MSFRC bending and straight gradually reduced, and the rate of decline was faster than that of its strength. However, the uniaxial tensile properties were more sensitive to the temperature and degraded more rapidly. A quantitative relationship was established between MSFRC residual bending, tensile strength, and temperature. A comparison with existing research results shows that MSFRC has achieved an ideal effect of high temperature resistance. The multi-scale hybrid fiber system significantly alleviates the deterioration of cement-based composite’s mechanical properties under high temperatures. With the help of an optical microscope and scanning electron microscope (SEM), the high temperature influence mechanism on the uniaxial tensile and flexural properties of MSFRC was revealed.

scholarly journals Determination of Mechanical Properties of Fiber Reinforced Concrete for Numerical Modelling

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-106
Author(s):  
Z. Marcalikova ◽  
R. Cajka
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Numerical Modelling ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Flexural Tensile Strength

AbstractThe paper deals with the determination of mechanical properties of fiber reinforced concrete in dependence on various dosages and recipe of concrete. The mechanical properties were determined for the default recipe of concrete, where the individual variants differ in the amount of fibers. The fibers dosing was 0, 25, 50 and 75 kg/m3. At the highest dosage of 75 kg/m3, the recipe is optimized with regard to the microstructure of the concrete. In the experimental program were determined compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, split tensile strength, flexural tensile strength and load-displacement diagram. The flexural tensile strength was determined based on a three-point and four-point bending test. Based on the evaluated data, the uniaxial tensile strength and the functional dependence for the resultant recipe of concrete with a dosage of 75 kg/m3 is with respect of the increasing importance and application of numerical modelling of building structures, the analysis is performed using non-linear calculation. The aim was to simulate the performed laboratory test and appropriately approximate the specific input parameters of the fiber reinforced concrete for nonlinear analysis.

Effect of multi-scale polypropylene fiber hybridization on mechanical properties and microstructure of concrete at elevated temperatures

2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322098862
Author(s):  
Ninghui Liang ◽  
Xiufei You ◽  
Guojun Cao ◽  
Xinrong Liu ◽  
Zuliang Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber ◽  
Plain Concrete ◽  
Splitting Tensile Strength ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Concrete

This paper presents results of an experimental study on the compressive and splitting tensile strength of plain concretes and concretes incorporated with macro, micro and hybrid polypropylene (PP) fibers at elevated temperatures (20 °C, 200 °C, 400 °C, 600 °C, and 800 °C). Nine series of concrete mixtures with different contents PP fibers were prepared and the optimum mixing proportion of different sizes of PP fibers was discussed. The results indicated that the multi-scale polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete (dropped with three different sizes of PP fibers into concrete) had the best positive hybrid effect on resisting to high temperature, when the total PP fiber content was 6 kg/m3 and the macro PP fiber substitution was 80%. Meanwhile, the addition of macro PP fibers significantly enhanced the toughness of concrete. Compared with the value of plain concrete, the compressive and splitting tensile strength of the optimal multi-scale polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete at 800 °C increased 14% and 36% respectively.

Effect of combined drink cans and steel fibers on the impact resistance and mechanical properties of concrete

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 6734-6742
Author(s):  
A. Syamsir ◽  
S. M. Mubin ◽  
N. M. Nor ◽  
V. Anggraini ◽  
S. Nagappan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Indirect Tensile ◽  
The Impact

This study investigated the combine effect of 0.2 % drink cans and steel fibers with volume fractions of 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% and 3% to the mechanical properties and impact resistance of concrete. Hooked-end steel fiber with 30 mm and 0.75 mm length and diameter, respectively was selected for this study.  The drinks cans fiber were twisted manually in order to increase friction between fiber and concrete. The results of the experiment showed that the combination of steel fibers and drink cans fibers improved the strength performance of concrete, especially the compressive strength, flexural strength and indirect tensile strength. The results of the experiment showed that the combination of steel fibers and drink cans fibers improved the compressive strength, flexural strength and indirect tensile strength by 2.3, 7, and 2 times as compare to batch 1, respectively. Moreover, the impact resistance of fiber reinforced concrete has increase by 7 times as compared to non-fiber concretes. Moreover, the impact resistance of fiber reinforced concrete consistently gave better results as compared to non-fiber concretes. The fiber reinforced concrete turned more ductile as the dosage of fibers was increased and ductility started to decrease slightly after optimum fiber dosage was reached. It was found that concrete with combination of 2% steel and 0.2% drink cans fibers showed the highest compressive, split tensile, flexural as well as impact strength.    

scholarly journals Investigation of Damage Evolution in Heterogeneous Rock Based on the Grain-Based Finite-Discrete Element Model

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 3969
Author(s):  
Shirui Zhang ◽  
Shili Qiu ◽  
Pengfei Kou ◽  
Shaojun Li ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Grain Orientation ◽  
Damage Evolution ◽  
Discrete Element ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Tensile Cracks ◽  
Rock Heterogeneity ◽  
Heterogeneous Rock

Granite exhibits obvious meso-geometric heterogeneity. To study the influence of grain size and preferred grain orientation on the damage evolution and mechanical properties of granite, as well as to reveal the inner link between grain size‚ preferred orientation, uniaxial tensile strength (UTS) and damage evolution, a series of Brazilian splitting tests were carried out based on the combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM), grain-based model (GBM) and inverse Monte Carlo (IMC) algorithm. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Mineral grain significantly influences the crack propagation paths, and the GBM can capture the location of fracture section more accurately than the conventional model. (2) Shear cracks occur near the loading area, while tensile and tensile-shear mixed cracks occur far from the loading area. The applied stress must overcome the tensile strength of the grain interface contacts. (3) The UTS and the ratio of the number of intergrain tensile cracks to the number of intragrain tensile cracks are negatively related to the grain size. (4) With the increase of the preferred grain orientation, the UTS presents a “V-shaped” characteristic distribution. (5) During the whole process of splitting simulation, shear microcracks play the dominant role in energy release; particularly, they occur in later stage. This novel framework, which can reveal the control mechanism of brittle rock heterogeneity on continuous-discontinuous trans-scale fracture process and microscopic rock behaviour, provides an effective technology and numerical analysis method for characterizing rock meso-structure. Accordingly, the research results can provide a useful reference for the prediction of heterogeneous rock mechanical properties and the stability control of engineering rock masses.

scholarly journals Roller Compacted Concrete with Recycled Concrete Aggregate for Paving Bases

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedelvan Emerson Fardin ◽  
Adriana Goulart dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Modulus Of Elasticity ◽  
Splitting Tensile Strength ◽  
Recycled Concrete ◽  
Concrete Aggregate ◽  
Recycled Concrete Aggregate ◽  
Roller Compacted Concrete ◽  
Flexural Tensile Strength ◽  
Mechanical And Physical Properties

This research aimed to investigate the mechanical and physical properties of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) used with Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) as a replacement for natural coarse aggregate. The maximum dry density method was adopted to prepare RCC mixtures with 200 kg/m³ of cement content and coarse natural aggregates in the concrete mixture. Four RCC mixtures were produced from different RCA incorporation ratios (0%, 5%, 15%, and 30%). The compaction test, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural tensile strength, and modulus of elasticity, porosity, density, and water absorption tests were performed to analyze the mechanical and physical properties of the mixtures. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to identify the influences of RCA on RCC’s mechanical properties. As RCA increased in mixtures, some mechanical properties were observed to decrease, such as modulus of elasticity, but the same was not observed in the splitting tensile strength. All RCCs displayed compressive strength greater than 15.0 MPa at 28 days, splitting tensile strength above 1.9 MPa, flexural tensile strength above 2.9 MPa, and modulus of elasticity above 19.0 GPa. According to Brazilian standards, the RCA added to RCC could be used for base layers.

Performance of Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Composites: Mechanical Properties

2021 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
Norliana Bakar ◽  
Siew Choo Chin
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Vinyl Ester ◽  
Fiber Volume Fraction ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Bamboo Fiber ◽  
Synthetic Fiber ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Volume ◽  
Volume Fractions

Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) made from synthetic fiber had been widely used for strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures in the past decades. Due to its high cost, detrimental to the environment and human health, natural fiber composites becoming the current alternatives towards a green and environmental friendly material. This paper presents an investigation on the mechanical properties of bamboo fiber reinforced composite (BFRC) with different types of resins. The BFRC specimens were prepared by hand lay-up method using epoxy and vinyl-ester resins. Bamboo fiber volume fractions, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45% and 50% was experimentally investigated by conducting tensile and flexural test, respectively. Results showed that the tensile and flexural strength of bamboo fiber reinforced epoxy composite (BFREC) was 63.2% greater than the bamboo fiber reinforced vinyl-ester composite (BFRVC). It was found that 45% of bamboo fiber volume fraction on BFREC exhibited the highest tensile strength compared to other BFRECs. Meanwhile, 40% bamboo fiber volume fraction of BFRVC showed the highest tensile strength between bamboo fiber volume fractions for BFRC using vinyl-ester resin. Studies showed that epoxy-based BFRC exhibited excellent results compared to the vinyl-ester-based composite. Further studies are required on using BFRC epoxy-based composite in various structural applications and strengthening purposes.

scholarly journals Effects of Gd, Y Content on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Mg-Gd-Y-Nd-Zr Alloy

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changping Tang ◽  
Kai Wu ◽  
Wenhui Liu ◽  
Di Feng ◽  
Xuezhao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Ultimate Tensile Strength ◽  
Solution Treatment ◽  
Age Hardening ◽  
Uniaxial Tensile ◽  
Microstructure And Mechanical Properties ◽  
Shaped Particle ◽  
Zr Alloy ◽  
Non Equilibrium

The effects of Gd, Y content on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg-Gd-Y-Nd-Zr alloy were investigated using hardness measurements, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), and uniaxial tensile testing. The results indicate that the alloys in as-cast condition mainly consist of α-Mg matrix and non-equilibrium eutectic Mg5.05RE (RE = Gd, Y, Nd). After solution treatment, the non-equilibrium eutectics dissolved into the matrix but some block shaped RE-rich particles were left at the grain boundaries and within grains. These particles are especially Y-rich and deteriorate the mechanical properties of the alloys. Both the compositions of the eutectic and the block shaped particle were independent of the total Gd, Y content of the alloys, but the number of the particles increases as the total Gd, Y content increases. The ultimate tensile strength increases as the total Gd, Y content decreases. A Mg-5.56Gd-3.38Y-1.11Nd-0.48Zr alloy with the highest ultimate tensile strength of 280 MPa and an elongation of 1.3% was fabricated. The high strength is attributed to the age hardening behavior and the decrease in block shaped particles.

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