Biaxial Behavior of Steel Fiber–Reinforced Recycled-Aggregate Concrete Subjected to Dynamic Compression
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 36, Issue 12
Abstract
This paper presented an experimental study on the dynamic biaxial mechanical behavior of steel fiber-reinforced recycled-aggregate concrete (SFRRAC) samples. Five control variables, including lateral pressure (), strain rates (), volume content of steel fibers (), volume content of polyvinyl-alcohol fibers (), and substitution ratio of recycled coarse aggregate (SRCA) were designed. Under different values of , two distinct failure modes of samples were observed: columnar failure and oblique shear failure. However, the failure modes showed no substantial differences at various values of , , , and SRCA. The results indicated that the biaxial strength exhibited a general trend of initially increasing and then decreasing with increasing . Specially, the biaxial strength exhibited a maximum increase of approximately 67% when reached 40 MPa. The lateral pressure was more significant than the strain rate in terms of material strengthening. The dynamic biaxial strength exhibited a linear correlation with the logarithm of the strain rate. The incorporation of steel fibers and polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) fibers resulted in a slight 9.3% improvement in biaxial strength but significantly improved its deformation capacity. To achieve maximum strength, the optimal values of and were found to be 1.2% and 0.1%, respectively. With SRCA increasing from 0% to 100%, the biaxial strength decreased by approximately 11%. Moreover, this paper proposed two dynamic failure criteria, one in the principal and the other in the octahedral stress spaces. These criteria exhibited good agreement with the experimental data.
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Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52238006) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2042022kf0014).
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Volume 36 • Issue 12 • December 2024
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Received: Jun 23, 2023
Accepted: Jan 29, 2024
Published online: Sep 17, 2024
Published in print: Dec 1, 2024
Discussion open until: Feb 17, 2025
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Aggregates
- Analysis (by type)
- Biaxial strength
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Engineering mechanics
- Failure analysis
- Failure modes
- Fibers
- Forensic engineering
- Infrastructure
- Lateral pressure
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Pavements
- Pressure (type)
- Shear failures
- Solid mechanics
- Steel fibers
- Strain
- Strain rates
- Strength of materials
- Structural engineering
- Transportation engineering
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