Description
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) can be defined as concrete that is able to flow in the
interior of the formwork, passing through the reinforcement and filling it in a natural
manner, being consolidated under the action of its own weight. Adding the benefits of
SCC to those resulting from the addition of discrete fibres to cement based materials, a
high performance material, designated by steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete
(SFRSCC), is obtained. In the present work the strategy followed to design SFRSCC is
described, as well as, the experimental research carried out to characterize its flexural
and compression behaviour. A special effort is done to assess the post-cracking
behaviour, carrying out three point notched beam tests. The equivalent and the residual
flexural tensile strength parameters, proposed by RILEM TC 162-TDF to characterize
the toughness of steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC), are determined. To evaluate the
stress-crack opening diagram of the designed SFRSCC, an inverse analysis is performed
fitting the obtained experimental force-deflection curves.