Fatigue Behavior of Steel Fiber Concrete in Direct Tension
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 29, Issue 9
Abstract
An investigation was conducted to study the behavior of plain concrete and steel fiber reinforced concrete under direct tension fatigue loading. Tests were conducted on dogbone specimens with varying amounts of steel fiber volume content (0, 0.75, and 1.5%). A new concept was introduced in deriving material damage parameters for plain and steel fiber concrete. The parameters developed were implemented into a damage evolution function to enable the prediction of concrete strength and fatigue secant modulus deterioration of steel fiber reinforced concrete. As such, the damage evolution models developed for steel fiber concrete can be implemented into steel fiber reinforced concrete constitutive models for the analysis of fatigue-damaged concrete elements. From the experimental results, the deformation profiles for plain and steel fiber concrete were similar, and the well-known relationship between the fatigue life and secondary strain rate of concrete in compression also exist for plain concrete and steel fiber concrete in tension. In addition, under the same loading parameters, the fatigue life of steel fiber concrete was found to increase as steel fiber content increased from 0 to 1.5%.
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Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and Hatch Ltd for the invaluable contributions and financial support to this research. The authors also acknowledge the assistance received from the Niger Delta Development Commission and the Delta State Government of Nigeria.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 29 • Issue 9 • September 2017
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Received: Sep 7, 2016
Accepted: Jan 24, 2017
Published online: May 16, 2017
Published in print: Sep 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Oct 16, 2017
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