COMPRESSION FATIGUE OF FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE

THE EFFECT OF REPEATED LOADS ON THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE WAS INVESTIGATED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT FIBER CONCRETE WOULD EXHIBIT COMPRESSION FATIGUE BEHAVIOR SUPERIOR TO THAT OF UNREINFORCED CONCRETES. OVER 100 CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS OF FIBER REINFORCED AND UNREINFORCED CONCRETE WERE TESTED IN UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT THE CRACK ARREST MECHANISM ASSOCIATED WITH FIBER CONCRETE WAS NOT PARTICULATLY EFFECTIVE IN IMPROVING THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF THE MATERIAL AND THAT THE FIBER CONCRETE EXHIBITED THE SAME COMPRESSION FATIGUE CHARACTERISTICS AS UNREINFORCED CONCRETES. IT WAS OVSERVED, HOWEVER, THAT THE FIBER CONCRETE FAILED GRADUALLY, NOT EXHIBITING THE EXPLOSIVE FAILURE SO OFTEN FOUND WITH UNREINFORCED CONCRETES.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • PROC PAPER 10469
• Authors:
  • Ramey, M R
  • Mccabe, P J
• Publication Date: 1974-4

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 139-49
• Serial:
  • Journal of Engineering Mechanics
  • Volume: 100
  • Issue Number: em2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9399
  • EISSN: 1943-7889
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jenmdt

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accelerated tests; Compression; Compression tests; Failure; Fatigue (Mechanics); Fiber reinforced concrete; Fibers; Reinforced concrete; Repeated loads; Strength of materials; Testing
• Old TRIS Terms: Compressive strength tests
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00214340
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 1974 12:00AM