Punching Shear Capacity of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Slab- Column Connections

Author(s):  
Josef Landler ◽  
Oliver Fischer

<p>To design flat slabs directly supported on columns, the punching shear resistance of the slab is a main factor. It can be increased in the vicinity of the slab-column connection with punching shear reinforcement, like bent up bars or shear studs, to bear the high reaction forces. However, the usage of punching shear reinforcement requires the knowledge of special design rules and often leads to problems and deficiencies in construction.</p><p>Fiber reinforced concrete seems to be a promising alternative to conventional punching shear reinforcement. To investigate the load bearing behavior of the slab-column connection using fiber reinforced concrete, a total of eight punching shear tests were performed. The specimens were realized with a typical top and bottom flexural reinforcement, but without punching shear reinforcement. Varied parameters were the slab thickness with 250 mm and 300 mm and the fiber content V<sub>f</sub> with 0.5 Vol.-% and 1.0 Vol.-%. To investigate the influence of modern fiber types, normal- and high-strength steel fibers with normal- and double-hooked-ends were used.</p><p>In all eight experimental tests, the intended punching shear failure was achieved. The capable load using fiber reinforced concrete increased by 20 % to 50 % compared to the reference tests without steel fibers, depending on the fiber type and the fiber content V<sub>f</sub>. Additionally, this load increase was accompanied by a significant improvement in ductility. The post-cracking behavior was noticeably influenced by the used steel fiber type. An influence of the slab thickness or steel fiber type on the shear strength contributed by the fiber reinforced concrete could not be determined.</p>

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (20) ◽  
pp. 391-404
Author(s):  
Julita Krassowska ◽  
Marta Kosior-Kazberuk

The paper presents the results of a comprehensive investigation aimed at studying the shear behavior of basalt or steel fiber-reinforced concrete (BFRC or SFRC) beams, as well as analyzing the possibility of using basalt or steel fibers as a minimum shear reinforcement. Two-span reinforced concrete beams with the cross-section of 8×16 cm and length of 200 cm and diversified spacing of stirrups were tested. Steel stirrups or alternatively steel or basalt fibers were used as a shear reinforcement. Steel fiber content was 80 and 120 kg/m3and basalt fiber content was 2.5 and 5.0 kg/m3. The shear behavior and/or bending capacity of SFRC and BFRC beams were studied. The result indicated that fibers can be safely used as a minimum shear reinforcement.


2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322098165
Author(s):  
Hossein Saberi ◽  
Farzad Hatami ◽  
Alireza Rahai

In this study, the co-effects of steel fibers and FRP confinement on the concrete behavior under the axial compression load are investigated. Thus, the experimental tests were conducted on 18 steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) specimens confined by FRP. Moreover, 24 existing experimental test results of FRP-confined specimens tested under axial compression are gathered to compile a reliable database for developing a mathematical model. In the conducted experimental tests, the concrete strength was varied as 26 MPa and 32.5 MPa and the steel fiber content was varied as 0.0%, 1.5%, and 3%. The specimens were confined with one and two layers of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) sheet. The experimental test results show that simultaneously using the steel fibers and FRP confinement in concrete not only significantly increases the peak strength and ultimate strain of concrete but also solves the issue of sudden failure in the FRP-confined concrete. The simulations confirm that the results of the proposed model are in good agreement with those of experimental tests.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1055 ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Can Xu

In the original to remove steel and steel fiber reinforced concrete coarse aggregate in quartz powder and a small amount of activator, can boost steel fiber content, and its application in construction makes it more convenient, but how the penetration resistance works is not particularly clear. Through the penetration resistance experiment, found that when joined the SF and BF, RPC can still keep complete even after three times by penetration ,indicating the good performance of penetration resistance.


Author(s):  
Natalia Sharma

Abstract: Reinforced concrete structures are frequently in need of repair and strengthening as a result of numerous environmental causes, ageing, or material damage under intense stress conditions, as well as mistakes made during the construction process. RC structures are repaired using a variety of approaches nowadays. The usage of FRC is one of the retrofitting strategies. Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) was used in this investigation because it contains randomly dispersed short discrete steel fibers that operate as internal reinforcement to improve the cementitious composite's characteristics (concrete). The main rationale for integrating small discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce the amount of cement used. The principal reason for incorporating short discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce cracking in the elastic range, increase the tensile strength and deformation capacity and increase the toughness of the resultant composite. These properties of SFRC primarily depend upon length and volume of Steel fibers used in the concrete mixture. In India, the steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) has seen limited applications in several structures due to the lack of awareness, design guidelines and construction specifications. Therefore, there is a need to develop information on the role of steel fibers in the concrete mixture. The experimental work reported in this study includes the mechanical properties of concrete at different volume fractions of steel fibers. These mechanical properties include compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength and to study the effect of volume fraction and aspect ratio of steel fibers on these mechanical properties. However, main aim of the study was significance of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with fiber reinforced concrete layer and to investigate how these beams deflect under strain. The objective of the investigation was finding that applying FRC to strengthen beams enhanced structural performance in terms of ultimate load carrying capacity, fracture pattern deflection, and mode of failure or not.


2021 ◽  
pp. 147592172110528
Author(s):  
Zahoor Hussain ◽  
Zhang Pu ◽  
Abasal Hussain ◽  
Shakeel Ahmed ◽  
Atta Ullah Shah ◽  
...  

Cracks in concrete structures have always been the main reason to allow the aggressive and harmful agents to infringe the concrete resulting in its deterioration and decreasing lifespan. In the present study, the water permeability of the cracked concrete has been investigated. The consequences of cracking on the durability and endurance of concrete were also studied. A state-of-the-art permeability setup was designed to measure the water flow in normal and fiber-reinforced concrete under direct tensile loading. The setup was convenient for determining the average stress applied to the concrete specimens and simultaneously the maximum crack opening. Furthermore, the effect of fiber content on the cracking geometry (tortuosity and roughness) was evaluated by incorporating the coordinate data of the cracked surface using a 3D sensor-based laser scanning data acquisition system. To understand the effect of fiber content on the cracking geometry (tortuosity and roughness), the acquired data were then analyzed. Test results show that the designed setup is suitable to measure the water permeability under direct tensile loading. Water permeability decreased upon increasing the steel fiber dosage. Besides, the results show that tortuosity decreased while surface roughness increased with the fiber dosage increment. Promising preliminary results indicated that there is an inverse relationship between surface roughness and water permeability. The crack sensing setup successfully monitored the crack.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 3902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shasha Lu ◽  
Mohammadreza Koopialipoor ◽  
Panagiotis G. Asteris ◽  
Maziyar Bahri ◽  
Danial Jahed Armaghani

When designing flat slabs made of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC), it is very important to predict their punching shear capacity accurately. The use of machine learning seems to be a great way to improve the accuracy of empirical equations currently used in this field. Accordingly, this study utilized tree predictive models (i.e., random forest (RF), random tree (RT), and classification and regression trees (CART)) as well as a novel feature selection (FS) technique to introduce a new model capable of estimating the punching shear capacity of the SFRC flat slabs. Furthermore, to automatically create the structure of the predictive models, the current study employed a sequential algorithm of the FS model. In order to perform the training stage for the proposed models, a dataset consisting of 140 samples with six influential components (i.e., the depth of the slab, the effective depth of the slab, the length of the column, the compressive strength of the concrete, the reinforcement ratio, and the fiber volume) were collected from the relevant literature. Afterward, the sequential FS models were trained and verified using the above-mentioned database. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed models for both testing and training datasets, various statistical indices, including the coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE), were utilized. The results obtained from the experiments indicated that the FS-RT model outperformed FS-RF and FS-CART models in terms of prediction accuracy. The range of R2 and RMSE values were obtained as 0.9476–0.9831 and 14.4965–24.9310, respectively; in this regard, the FS-RT hybrid technique demonstrated the best performance. It was concluded that the three hybrid techniques proposed in this paper, i.e., FS-RT, FS-RF, and FS-CART, could be applied to predicting SFRC flat slabs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurullah Soylu ◽  
Ahmet Ferhat Bingöl

SIFCON (Slurry Infiltrated Fiber Reinforced Concrete) is a composite which occur hardening of the matrix phase, consists of cement, water, mineral additives, fine sand, water reducing plasticizer, and reinforced with high volume fiber (5–20%). The main difference from the high strength concrete (HSC) is the ductile behaviour at failure. However, the brittleness increases with the strength increase in HSC, SIFCON has a ductile behaviour because of the high volume fiber content, low permeability, high durability. Despite fiber content is 2-3% in fiber reinforced concrete, fiber content may be ten times more in SIFCON and ductility is gained. This concrete is suggested to be used in military buildings against explosion, industrial grounds, airports, and bridge feet. In this study, in order to investigate the compressive and flexural strengths of SIFCON, the aspect ratio and fiber volume of steel fibers were chosen as variable and the effects of these parameters on compressive and flexural strengths were investigated. In the study, steel fibers with aspect ratio of 40, 55, 65, and 80 were used in 0, 4, 8 and 12% ratios. The water/binder ratio was kept constant at 0.35. Silica fume is used 10% and water-reducing plasticizer is used 1.5% of cement by weight. 7 and 28 days cured samples were subjected to compressive and flexural tests and the results were compared. As a result of the tests carried out, increases in both the compressive and flexural strengths of SIFCON specimens were determined with increasing fiber volume up to 8%. Strength reductions were observed at higher ratios. In cases where the fiber volume is too high, it has been seen that the strengths were decreased. The reason of strength reduction can be explained by the difficulty of passing ability of mortar between the fibers. The highest strengths were obtained from fibers with the aspect ratio of 80. Increase in the aspect ratio as well as increases in compressive and flexural strengths have been found.


2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 1762-1766
Author(s):  
Min Sun ◽  
Di Jiang Wen ◽  
Peng Xie

The interface bond between steel fibers and concrete matrix is the key of carrying capacity of steel fiber reinforced concrete(SFRC). In marine tidal fluctuation zone and splashed area, steel fibers will be rusty, and the bending toughness of SFRC was weakened. In this study, we tried to improve corrosion resistance of steel fiber and the interface bond strength by depositing zinc phosphate coating on steel fiber. These zinc phosphate steel fiber reinforced concrete(ZSFRC) have higher anti-corrosion ability. After corrosion they still have higher bending toughness than common SFRC.


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