The effect of fiber orientation on the post-cracking behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete under bending and uniaxial tensile tests

A Mudadu, G Tiberti, F Germano, GA Plizzari… - Cement and concrete …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present paper deals with an experimental study on the post-cracking tensile behavior of
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete (SFRC). In this regard, a broad experimental campaign …

Tensile stress–crack width law for steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete obtained from indirect (splitting) tensile tests

A Abrishambaf, JAO Barros, VMCF Cunha - Cement and Concrete …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, mode I fracture parameters of steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete
(SFRSCC) were derived from the numerical simulation of indirect splitting tensile tests. The …

Flexural tensile strength of concrete with synthetic fibers

J Blazy, Ł Drobiec, P Wolka - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fiber reinforcement is currently most often used in floors, railway sleepers, prefabricated
structural elements such as slabs, beams and tanks, and in small architecture elements …

Flexural strength and fracture size effects of pervious concrete

NA Brake, H Allahdadi, F Adam - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
A low strength/low unit weight and high-strength/high unit weight pervious concrete mix is
studied using notched three point bend specimens to ascertain strength and fracture size …

Steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete (from micromechanics to composite behavior)

VMCF Cunha - 2010 - repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt
The use of steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete, SFRSCC, probably, will swiftly
increase in the next years, since this composite material introduces several advantages on …

An inverse analysis method for multi-linear tensile stress-crack opening relationship of 3D/4D/5D steel fiber reinforced concrete

D Gao, C Ding, Y Pang, G Chen - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The tensile stress-crack opening (σ-w) relationship of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC)
is of much importance for calculating the resistance of structures at serviceability and …

Determination of Young's modulus, fracture energy and tensile strength of refractories by inverse estimation of a wedge splitting procedure

S Jin, D Gruber, H Harmuth - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2014 - Elsevier
The wedge splitting test according to Tschegg provides a technique to characterize the
fracture behavior of ordinary ceramic refractory materials. By fitting the data from finite …

Assessment of different methods for characterization and simulation of post-cracking behavior of self-compacting steel fiber reinforced concrete

F Soltanzadeh, VMCF Cunha, JAO Barros - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
The post-cracking tensile properties of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) is one of the
most important aspects that should be considered in design of SFRC structural members …

Static and fatigue fracture mechanics properties of self-compacting concrete using three-point bending tests and wedge-splitting tests

S Korte, V Boel, W De Corte, G De Schutter - Construction and Building …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper compares the results of static and dynamic three-point bending tests and wedge-
splitting tests on specimens, made from VC (vibrated concrete) and two types of SCC (self …

Experimental investigation into mode-I interfacial fracture behavior between rock and self-compacting concrete in rock-filled concrete

J He, H Huang, H Jiang, Y Zhou, F Jin… - Engineering Fracture …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent decades, rock-filled concrete (RFC) has been widely adopted in the construction of
massive concrete structures. RFC is similar to normal concrete materials and is commonly …