KASHYAP Chitresh GUPTA Shreyash MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECNOLOGY, JAIPUR

INTRODUCTION

FRC is a composite material made with Portland cement, aggregate Advantage- incorporates discrete discontinuous fibres. used in the form of three dimensionally randomly distributed fibres may also be used as a tensile skin to cover the steel reinforcement assists in controlling the propagation of microcracks

MIX DESIGN OF SFRC

Typical mix proportions:[1]
Cement 325 to 560 kg
w/c ratio 0.4 to 0.6 FA: Total AGG. 0.5-1

Max agg. Size 10mm

Air 6-9% Fibre-content 0.5-2.5% Appropriate pozzolana Admixture

TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCING [1][2] SFRC

Similar to conventional practice Performance can be enhanced using fibre with higher aspect ratio But reduces workability; admixture added Clumping too is major problem Problems of both workability and uniform distribution increase with increasing fibre length and volume.

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Clumping

The fibres may already be clumped together before they are added to the mix;. Fibres may be added too quickly to allow them to disperse in the mixer. Too high a volume of fibres may be added. The mixer itself may be too worn or inefficient to disperse the fibres. Introducing the fibres to the mixer before the other concrete ingredients will cause them to clump together.

How to add steel fibres to concrete [2] mix

The fibres should be added last to the wet concrete. The concrete should have a slump of 50-75 mm greater than the desired slump of the SFRC. The fibres should be added free of clumps. Once the fibres are all in the mixer, about 30-40 revolutions at mixing speed should properly disperse the fibres. The use of collated fibres held together by a water-soluble sizing which dissolves during mixing largely eliminates the problem of clumping.

TESTS

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The durability of SFRC is tested as SFRC beams were placed in the tidal zone. The experimental tests have shown that SFRC resists corrosion. Although spalling is common for reinforced concrete in sea water, none of the SFRC beams have observed being spalled.

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APPLICATION OF SFRC
The uses of SFRC over the past thirty years have been so varied and so widespread, that it is difficult to categorize them SFRC is being used in bridges, roads, pavements and buildings in flooring and other construction work added in their swimming pool and septic tank making standards added in the swimming pool and septic tank making standards road construction and achieving low cost, high standards and recycled tyre fibres.

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Australia finds many uses for steel-fiber-reinforced concrete: PUBLICATION #C870517

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SPECIFICATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEEL FIBREREINFORCEDROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETE ROADS: Kostas Koutselas Research and development department Aggregates industries UK ltd
Steel Fiber Reinforced Artificial Sand Concrete Appraisal in Earthquake Resisting Structures :M. R. CHITLANGE and P. S. PAJGADE Applied Mechanics Dept., Government Polytechnic, Aurangabad Civil Engg., Dept., Prof. Ram Meghe Institute of Technology & Research, Badnera, Amravati.

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