Correlation of Compressive Strength and Other Engineering Properties of High-Performance Steel Fiber–Reinforced Concrete
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 27, Issue 1
Abstract
In this paper, correlations among the compressive, flexural, and splitting tensile strengths of high-performance steel fiber-reinforced concrete (HPSFRC) were analyzed. For the investigation, a large amount of data was collected from the published papers with water/binder ratio in the range of 0.25–0.48, steel fiber volume fraction of 0.5–2.0% with aspect ratio of 40–80, and specimens of 150 mm Ø cylinders and size prisms. Results on the evaluation of the published empirical relations using the collected data indicate a large variation and inapplicability to steel fiber reinforced concrete, which necessitates the determination of empirical relations between the mechanical properties of SFRC. Through a statistical analysis on the data collected, power relations for flexural and splitting tensile strengths as a function of compressive strength, and the relation between flexural and splitting tensile strengths of HPSFRC with , were obtained. The validity of the proposed models was examined with the experimental data of the present study and earlier researcher, and the integral absolute error obtained is 5.1.
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Volume 27 • Issue 1 • January 2015
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Received: Sep 17, 2013
Accepted: Feb 5, 2014
Published online: Jul 10, 2014
Discussion open until: Dec 10, 2014
Published in print: Jan 1, 2015
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