High performance fibre-reinforced concrete FRC for civil engineering applications

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

PANZERA and A. L. CHRISTOFORO, Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil and P. H. RIBEIRO BORGES, Federal Centre for Technology Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET/MG), Brazil 

Fibres may also prevent the occurrence of large cracks, thus preventing percolation of water and contaminants into ceramic materials such as Portland cement mortars and concretes. So, corrosion of steel reinforcement or potential deterioration of concrete may be reduced with the addition of a variety of fibres to the Portland cement matrices. In addition, other enhanced 

Romualdi first proposed fibres as dispersed reinforcement for concrete in his two papers in 1963 and 1964. Later on, Biryukovichs proposed the employment of glass fibres into concrete, which were originally not resistant and durable in the highly alkaline Portland cement paste. It was Majumdar and Ryder (1968) who invented the alkali-resistant (AR) glass fibres with the addition of zirconium oxide (Brandt, 2008). 

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