Description
A high strength Steel Fibre Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete (SFRSCC) of high
ductility was developed. To evaluate the contribution of steel fibre reinforcement for
the flexural resistance of laminar structures, an experimental program was carried out
with slab strips of distinct longitudinal reinforcement ratio ( sl ρ ), submitted to four
point loads. A total of twelve slab strips were tested, grouped in three series of distinct
sl ρ (0.2, 0.36 and 0.56). Each series is composed of four slab strips, two of them
without fibre reinforcement, and the other two with 45 kg of hooked end steel fibres per
cubic meter of concrete. From the force-deflection relationship the contribution of steel
fibres for the slab load carrying capacity at the serviceability and ultimate limit states
was assessed. An equivalence between the content of steel fibres and the percentage of
a virtual conventional longitudinal steel bars was established. Taking the experimental
results and performing an inverse analysis, a stress-strain diagram was obtained to
characterize the post-cracking behaviour of the developed SFRSCC. The present work
describes the experimental and the numerical research carried out, and presents and
analyzes the main obtained results.