TAKING THE "MYSTERY" OUT OF FIBRE TECHNOLOGY

This brief article recounts a consultant engineer's experience with the market for steel fibre reinforced concrete (sfrc) in New Zealand. He suggests that sfrc is an easier material than reinforced concrete for design and use in the appropriate application. Sfrc performs very much like conventional reinforced concrete in applications such as industrial floor slabs, precast concrete and tilt up panel construction. Other areas of suitable application are shotcrete for tunnel linings, embankment protection, swimming pools, and remedial work. Long term performance is easier to predict than for other fibre concretes, because steel and concrete are familiar and tested materials. Demand for sfrc in New Zealand is increasing, and the material is available in a variety of designs. Production and onsite placement techniques are briefly referred to. In the absence of an international standard for the use of fibre reinforced concrete, the writer suggests that wide recognition is given to the American concrete institute (ACI) committee 544 document "design considerations for steel fibre reinforced concrete" published in ACI structural journal, september/october 1988. (TRRL)

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  CEMENT & CONCRETE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND

  13 WALL PLACE
  PORIRUA,   New Zealand 

  New Zealand Concrete Research Association

  Private Bag
  Porirua,   New Zealand 
• Publication Date: 1989-7

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 14-6
• Serial:
  • NEW ZEALAND CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
  • Volume: 33
  • Publisher: CEMENT & CONCRETE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND
  • ISSN: 0549-0219

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Demand; Fibers; Reinforced concrete; Specifications; Steel
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ITRD Terms: 4755: Concrete; 285: Demand (econ); 4557: Fibre; 8079: New Zealand; 4794: Reinforced concrete; 187: Specification (standard); 4542: Steel
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00497684
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM