STEEL FIBRE-REINFORCED

M. Taylor, F.D. Lydon and B I G. Barr Toughness Measurements on Steel Fibre-Reinforced High Strength Concrete, Cement and Concrete Composites Vol. 19 (1997), p. 329-340. 

Qian, C.X. Stroeven, P. (2000). Development of hybrid Polypropylene-Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 30, No.l, pp. 63-69, ISSN 0008-8846. 

Singh, S.P. Kaushik, S.K. (2003). Fatigue Strength of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete in Flexure, Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 25, pp. 779-786, ISSN 0958-9465. 

In an earlier study, Ducheyne and Hench fabricated composite materials with a bioactive glass (Bioglass ) matrix and stainless steel fibre reinforcement by an immersion technique [25]. Donald et al. have reported on the fabrication of glass and glass-ceramic matrix composites reinforced by stainless steel and Ni-based alloy filaments with diameters in the range 4 to 22 [jum [100, 101]. Glass-encapsulated metal filaments prepared by the Taylor-wire process were used for the fabrication of the composites [100]. 

C. Kaya, F. Kaya, A. R. Boccaccini, Fabrication of Stainless-Steel Fibre-Reinforced Cordierite Matrix Composites of Tubular Shape Using Electrophoretic Deposition, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 85, 2575-2577 (2002). 

R. L. McGee and S. Yalvac, Random Stainless Steel Fibre Reinforced Magnesia-Alumina-Silicate Glass Matrix Composites, in Int. SAMPE Symp. Exhib. (1990) 520 32. 

Fibre-reinforced concrete may be used in unreinforced as well as reinforced concrete pavements. The use of steel fibre-reinforced usually does not cause reduction of reinforcement required, it simply allows to increase the spacing between joints, which is advantageous. 

The required minimum characteristic design concrete flexural strength for concrete pavements with a design traffic of 10 HVAG or more is 4.5 MPa at 28 days, except for steel fibre-reinforced concrete, where the requirement is 5.5 MPa. 

The use of steel fibre-reinforced concrete does not affect the amount of reinforcement required. It is simply used to increase flexural strength when cracking in odd-shaped slabs needs to be controlled and where increased abrasion resistance is required for durability. 

The tank can be fabricated of rabber lined mild steel, stainless steel, fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) etc. (whichever is compatible with the chemical) and is mounted on a suitable transport vehicle. It will have arrangement to heat it if necessary. (MSRL/FRP tank will not be heated.)... 

Fracture surface of steel fibre-reinforced concrete (ACI report,... 

Steel fibre-reinforced refractories have shown excellent performance in... 

Banthia and Nandakumar (2003) have employed secondary polypropylene micro-fibres to enhance the deformation of steel fibre-reinforced concrete. More recently, Dawood and Ramli (2012) proposed the combination of steel fibres with synthetic and palm fibres as a means of reducing the corrosion problems of fibres and improving the flowing and mechanical properties of concrete. Lee et al. (2012) have shown that the blending of nylon and polypropylene fibres improves the spalling protection of FRC subjected to fire. Azhari and Banthia (2012) have blended carbon fibres and nanotubes in the development of smart stmcture materials, such as strain sensors. 

Banthia, N., Sappakittipakorn, M., 2007. Toughness enhancement in steel fibre reinforced concrete through fibre hybridization. Cement and Concrete Research. 37 (9), pp. 

Banthia, N., Mindess, S., Bentur, A., 1987b. Steel fibre reinforced concrete under impact. Proceedings of International Symposium on Fibre Reinforced Concrete (ISFRC-87),... 

Choi, O.C., Lee, C., 2003. Flexural performance of ring-type steel fibre-reinforced concrete. Cement Concrete Research, 33(6), pp. 841-849. 

Chunxiang, Q., Patnaikuni, 1., 1999. Properties of high strength steel fibre reinforced concrete beams in bending. Cement and Concrete Composites, 21(1), pp. 173—181. 

Edgington, J., Hannant, D.J., Williams, R.I.T., 1974. Steel Fibre Reinforced Corwrete. Building Research Establishment. CP69, pp. 17. 

Johnston, C.D., 1974. Steel fibre reinforced mortar and concrete—A review of mechanical properties. Fibre Reinforced Concrete, SP-44, pp. 127-142. 

Khaloo, A.R., Kim, N., 1996. Mechanical properties of normal to high strength steel fibre-reinforced concrete. Cement, Concrete ami Aggregates, 18(2), pp. 92-97. 

Song, P.S., Hwang, S., 2004. Mechanical properties of high-strength steel fibre-reinforced concrete. Construction and Building Materials, 18(9), pp. 669-673. 

Soroushian, P, Bayasi, Z., 1991. Fibre-type effect on the performance of steel fibre reinforced concrete. ACl Materials Journal, 88(2), pp. 129-134. 

Uygunoglu, T, 2008. Investigation of microstructure and flexural behavior of steel-fibre reinforced concrete. Materials and Structures, 41(8), pp. 1441-1449. 

The volume fraction of fibres and their distribution determine the way in which the fibres influence the behaviour of composite materials. All situations occur in practice as the fibre volume content may be as low as 0.3% in certain types of polypropylene or steel fibre-reinforced cements and may reach theoretically in unidirectional advanced composites used in construction of aircraft even 78.5% under square array and 90.7% under hexagonal array see Dutta (1998). 

Steel fibre reinforced concretes (SERC) were originally developed in the USA, invented by J.P. Romualdi as US Patent 3 429 094 in 1969 and produced... 

Baggott, R., Abdel-Monem, A. E. S. (1992) Aspects of bond in high volume fraction steel fibre reinforced calcium silicates , 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. 444-55. 

Granju, J.-L., Balouch, S. U. (2005) Corrosion of steel fibre reinforced concrete from the cracks , Cement and Concrete Research, 35 571-7. 

Figure 6.27 Cross-section of a steel fibre reinforced element with visible structure of fibres. 

RILEM TC 162-TDF (2003) Test and design methods for steel fibre reinforced concrete cr - e design , Materials and Structures, 36(262) 560-7. 

Brandt et al. (1992) tested concrete slabs cast a few years ago with two kinds of concrete with basalt and limestone aggregate, with a maximum aggregate grain size of 20 mm and compressive strength approximately f2g = 25 MPa. On these slabs were cast layers of steel-fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC) after the old surfaces have been carefully cleaned and washed and their roughness has been artificially increased. The new material was... 

Bentui A., Diamond, S., Mindess, S. (1985) Cracking processes in steel fibre reinforced cement paste . Cement and Concrete Research, 15(2) 331—42. 

Wei, S., Mandel, J.A., and Said, S. (1986), Study of the interface strength in steel fibre reinforced cement based composites . Journal of American Concrete Inst., 83, pp. 597-605. 

Considerable progress in that approach, namely in formulating rules for structural design of elements, was achieved by the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 162-TDF Test and design methods for steel fibre reinforced concrete led by L. Vandewalle (2000) and Vandewalle et al. (2003). The input from the fibres is based on the evaluation of the area under the respective portions of the load-deflection curves, related to the selected limit states. Section 10.2.4. 

Gray, R. J., Johnston, C. D. (1987) The influence of fibre-matrix interfacial bond strength on the mechanical properties of steel fibre reinforced mortars . International Journal of Cement Composites and Lightweight Concrete, 9(1) 43-55. 

Swamy, R. N., Mangat, P. S. (1974a) A theory for the flexural strength of steel fibre reinforced concrete . Cement and Concrete Research, 4 313-25, 701-7. 

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. 

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