scholarly journals The The Resistance of Fiber-reinforced Concrete with Steel Fibers and CFRP to Drop-weight Impact

Author(s):  
Ali Kheyroddin ◽  
Hamed Arshadi ◽  
Javad Khedri

In this paper, the effects of macro-synthetic steel fibers and bidirectional carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) on the impact resistance of concrete specimens were studied. 54 concrete cylindrical specimens with different compressive strengths (20, 30, and 40 MPa) and with different fiber content ratios (0 %, 1 %, 1.5 %, and 2 %) were tested under impact loading. Half of these specimens were tested with the CFRP wrapping. The specimens were subjected to weight (46.7 and 66.8 kg) dropping at a height of 1.62 m. The process of weight dropping was continued until 30 % weight loss in the specimens was observed and the number of weight droppings related to this loss was recorded. Results indicated that the impact resistance of the concrete specimens (corresponding to the number of weight droppings) increased by using steel fibers or CFRP wrapping, separately. However, the results demonstrated that the specimens wrapped with the CFRP sheets had much further impact resistance than the FRCs without wrapping. Finally, the results showed that the greater the compressive strengths of the concrete, the better the impact resistance.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 6734-6742
Author(s):  
A. Syamsir ◽  
S. M. Mubin ◽  
N. M. Nor ◽  
V. Anggraini ◽  
S. Nagappan ◽  
...  

This study investigated the combine effect of 0.2 % drink cans and steel fibers with volume fractions of 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% and 3% to the mechanical properties and impact resistance of concrete. Hooked-end steel fiber with 30 mm and 0.75 mm length and diameter, respectively was selected for this study.  The drinks cans fiber were twisted manually in order to increase friction between fiber and concrete. The results of the experiment showed that the combination of steel fibers and drink cans fibers improved the strength performance of concrete, especially the compressive strength, flexural strength and indirect tensile strength. The results of the experiment showed that the combination of steel fibers and drink cans fibers improved the compressive strength, flexural strength and indirect tensile strength by 2.3, 7, and 2 times as compare to batch 1, respectively. Moreover, the impact resistance of fiber reinforced concrete has increase by 7 times as compared to non-fiber concretes. Moreover, the impact resistance of fiber reinforced concrete consistently gave better results as compared to non-fiber concretes. The fiber reinforced concrete turned more ductile as the dosage of fibers was increased and ductility started to decrease slightly after optimum fiber dosage was reached. It was found that concrete with combination of 2% steel and 0.2% drink cans fibers showed the highest compressive, split tensile, flexural as well as impact strength.    


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