but until recently was mainly employed in applications wherecorrosion resistancewas required. However, now there are ever-increasing demands to enhance the durability and resilience of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, to extend their useful design life and also to minimise ...
Several problems have prevented fiber reinforced concrete from becoming widely adopted as a replacement for traditional steel reinforcement bar (rebar) and welded wire fabric. For example, straight fibers do not affect the concrete until large cracks develop, making them highly inefficient and not cost...
The model was built using the common finite element method in the validation of the examples; the model specimen reinforcement was HRB400 rebar, and the bottom of the slab was arranged in a single layer in both directions. The yield strength of the reinforcement and the concrete strength were...