Review on different testing methods and factors affecting fracture properties of fiber reinforced cementitious composites

C Xie, M Cao, M Khan, H Yin, J Guan - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Fiber reinforced cementitious composites (FRCC) have been widely used in the field of civil
engineering in terms of high-performance building material. The fracture mechanics has …

A review on concrete fracture energy and effective parameters

S Khalilpour, E BaniAsad, M Dehestani - Cement and Concrete research, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a discussion on the subject of fracture energy of concrete and effective
parameters. Therefore, it serves as an overview of the available approaches in determining …

Property assessment of high-performance concrete containing three types of fibers

H Huang, Y Yuan, W Zhang, L Zhu - International Journal of Concrete …, 2021 - Springer
This study investigated the mechanical properties and the effects of the volume fraction for
carbon fibers (CF-VF), polypropylene fibers (PPF-VF) and aramid fibers (AF-VF) with a fixed …

The effect of sulfuric acid attack on mechanical properties of steel fiber-reinforced concrete containing waste nylon aggregates: experiments and RSM-based …

A Arjomandi, R Mousavi, M Tayebi… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Replacing natural aggregate with recycled plastic has been a strategy to reduce pollution
associated with conventional concrete production and disposal of plastic materials. Due to …

Development of eco-efficient self-compacting concrete with waste marble powder using the response surface method

KE Alyamac, E Ghafari, R Ince - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Marble sludge is a significant environmental problem for all countries that have a marble
stone industry. The problem primarily originates from the impossibility of storing marble …

Efficiency of basalt fiber length and content on mechanical and microstructural properties of hybrid fiber concrete

M Khan, M Cao, C Xie, M Ali - Fatigue & Fracture of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, multiscale hybrid fiber‐reinforced concrete is used instead of single fiber‐
reinforced concrete to achieve better performance with hybrid fiber at their respective scale …

Mechanical features and durability of concrete incorporating recycled coarse aggregate and nano-silica: Experimental study, prediction, and optimization

F Rezaei, A Memarzadeh, MR Davoodi… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanical features of concrete made with multiple quantities of recycled coarse
aggregate replacing natural gravel were investigated in this work. In addition, behavior …

Rubbercrete mixture optimization using response surface methodology

BS Mohammed, VC Khed, MF Nuruddin - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Rubbercrete is made of partially replacing fine aggregate, in normal concrete, with crumb
rubber (CR) from scrap tires. Despite several advantages of rubbercrete, one of the most …

Properties of high strength polypropylene fiber concrete containing recycled aggregate

TW Ahmed, AAM Ali, RS Zidan - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, there has been a growing interest in using recycled aggregate which is locally
available from the devastating buildings damaged by the war in Iraq's Mosul City (2017) as a …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of short fiber reinforcements on fracture performance of cement-based materials: A systematic review approach

W Ahmad, M Khan, P Smarzewski - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fracture characteristics were used to effectively evaluate the performance of fiber-reinforced
cementitious composites. The fracture parameters provided the basis for crack stability …