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Computers and Concrete Volume 13, Number 6, June 2014 , pages 709-737 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2014.13.6.709 |
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Short term bond shear stress and cracking control of reinforced self-compacting concrete one way slabs under flexural loading |
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Farhad Aslani, Shami Nejadi and Bijan Samali
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| Abstract | ||
| Fibre-reinforced self-compacting concrete (FRSCC) is a high-performance building material that combines positive aspects of fresh properties of self-compacting concrete (SCC) with improved characteristics of hardened concrete as a result of fibre addition. To produce SCC, either the constituent materials or the corresponding mix proportions may notably differ from the conventional concrete (CC). These modifications besides enhance the concrete fresh properties affect the hardened properties of the concrete. Therefore, it is vital to investigate whether all the assumed hypotheses about CC are also valid for SCC structures. In the present paper, the experimental results of short-term flexural load tests on eight reinforced SCC and FRSCC specimens slabs are presented. For this purpose, four SCC mixes – two plain SCC, two steel, two polypropylene, and two hybrid FRSCC slab specimens – are considered in the test program. The tests are conducted to study the development of SCC and FRSCC flexural cracking under increasing short-term loads from first cracking through to flexural failure. The achieved experimental results give the SCC and FRSCC slabs bond shear stresses for short-term crack width calculation. Therefore, the adopted bond shear stress for each mix slab is presented in this study. Crack width, crack patterns, deflections at mid-span, steel strains and concrete surface strains at the steel levels were recorded at each load increment in the post-cracking range. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| fibre-reinforced self-compacting concrete; self-compacting concrete; crack control; flexural cracking; bond shear stress | ||
| Address | ||
| Farhad Aslani: Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia Shami Nejadi: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Bijan Samali: Institute for Infrastructure Engineering, University of Western Sydney, Australia | ||