High performance fibre reinforced concrete

High performance fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) for civil engineering applications... 

The durability of the fibres is paramount on the development of ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC). These new composites represent the futnre of FRC and are treated in Section 15.5. 

FRC may be classified in conventional fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) and high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete (HPFRC). They are composites that present a distinct stress-strain response in tension (Fig. 15.4). The... 

Hybrid high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete... 

Ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) and other new developments... 

This section will briefly present some recent case studies of high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete. The main idea is to highlight the application of different types of fibre into concrete stmctures or elements. 

Corinaldesi, V., Moriconi, G., 2012. Mechanical and thermal evaluation of ultra high performance fibre reinforced concretes for engineering applications. Construction and Building Materials, 26(1), pp. 289-294. 

Firas, S.A., Gilles, E, Robert, L.R., 2011. Bond between carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) bars and ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) Experimental study. Construction and Building Materials, 25(2), pp. 479-485. 

Kim, D.J., Park, S.H., Ryu, G.S., Koh, K.T., 2011. Comparative flexural behavior of hybrid ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete with different macro fibres. Construction and Building Materials, 25, pp. 4144-4155. 

Figure 7.22 Comparison of typical stress-strain responses in tension of high performance fibre reinforced concrete and conventional FRC [63].

AFGC Recommendations, Ultra High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concretes, Interim Recommendations, AFGC - Association Francaise de Genie Civil, Bagneux, France, 2002. 

K. Habel, Structural Behavior of Elements Combining Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC) and Reinforced Concrete , PhD Thesis, EPFL, Lausanne, 2004. 

P. Stroeven and Y.M. de Haan, Structural investigations on steel fibre concrete by stereological methods , in H.W. Reinhardt and A.E. Naaman (eds) High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cement Composites, London E FN SPON, 1992, pp. 407-418. 

High Performance Concretes A State-of-the-Art Report. Summarizes results of a literature review on the mechanical properties of concrete, with particular reference to the highway application of high performance concrete (HPC). Discusses the selection of materials and the manufacture of high performance concrete the behaviour of plastic and hardened concrete the behaviour of fibre-reinforced concrete and the applications of high performance concrete. 250 pages. SHRP-C-317, 10... 

Brandt, A. M., Glinicki, M. A. (1992) Flexural behaviour of concrete elements reinforced with carbon fibres , in Proc. RILEM Int. Workshop High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites, H. W. Reinhardt and A. E. Naaman eds, Mainz, 23-26 June 1991, Chapman and Hall/Spon, pp. 288-99. 

Vandewalle, L. (2003) Test and design method for steel fibre reinforced concrete based on the cr-e relation , in Some Aspects of Design and Application of High Performance Cement Based Materials, A. M. Brandt ed., AMAS Warsaw, Lecture Notes 18, pp. 135-190. 

Lau, A., Anson, M. (2006) Effect of high temperatures on high performance steel fibre reinforced concrete, Cement and Concrete Research, 36 1698-707. 

Luo, X., Sun, W., Chan S. Y. N. (2000) Characteristics of high-performance steel fibre-reinforced concrete subject to high velocity impact, Cement and Concrete Research, 30 907—14. 

In this chapter, the standard mix design methods for concretes are only briefly described as they are presented in full detail in many manuals, e.g. de Larrard (1998), Day (1999), Dewar (1999), and Kett (1999). Design and detailing of structural elements with ordinary concrete, high performance concrete or fibre-reinforced concrete is not considered here. 

The general conclusion is that while there are many well-established procedures to design ordinary concretes, which may be extended also to cover high performance concrete and ultra high performance concrete, there are no such methods for polymer modified concretes and for fibre-reinforced concretes. Also for fibres other than short steel ones (glass, polypropylene, long steel fibres, etc.) there are no general recommendations. 

Karihaloo, B. L. (2000) Optimum design of high-performance steel fibre-reinforced concrete mixes, in Proc. Int. Symp. Brittle Matrix Composites 6, A. M. Brandt, V. C. Li and I. H. Marshall eds, Warsaw ZTurek and Woodhead Publishing pp. 3-16. 

I. Markovic, J.C. Walraven and J.G.M. van Mier, Experimental evaluation of fibre pul lout from plain and fibre reinforced concrete , in A.E. Naaman and H.W. Reinhardt (eds) High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cement Composites (HPFRCC4), Rl LEM Proceedings PRO 30, RILEM Publications, Bagneux, 2003, pp. 419-436. 

G. Solomos and M. Berra, Compressive behaviour of high performance concrete at dynamic strain-rates , in M. di Prisco, R. Eelicetti and G.A. Plizzari (eds) Fibre-Reinforced Concretes, BEFiB 2004, RILEM Proceedings PRO 39, RILEM Publications, Bagneux, 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 421-430. 

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