Thin UHPFRC slabs without conventional reinforcement as light-weight structural elements
Ultra-High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) is a material characterised by significantly improved mechanical and durability properties compared to other concretes. In recent years, an important research effort has been made to identify appropriate structural forms and to provide practical design rules allowing efficient UHPFRC structures to be conceived. This paper presents the results of an experimental and theoretical study on the structural behaviour of thin UHPFRC slabs without conventional reinforcement. It is shown that these elements can provide high bending resistance, and, applied in an appropriate structural arrangement, lead to strong and light-weight structures that cannot be built with ordinary reinforced concrete. The favourable behaviour of thin UHPFRC members results from material mechanical properties: high compressive strength and significant ductility in tension of thin UHPFRC members lead to a ductile bending response, even when conventional reinforcement is not provided. It is demonstrated that the theory of plasticity can be safely used to assess the bending failure load for thin UHPFRC slabs. A practical expression is proposed to define the resistant plastic moment, allowing an easy estimation of the bending load-bearing capacity of thin statically indeterminate UHPFRC elements. The results are compared with experimental data on slabs of various thicknesses, showing good agreement.
Proposed classification of HPFRC composites based on their tensile response
The tensile response of fiber reinforced cement (FRC) composites can be generally classified in two distinct categories depending on their behavior after first cracking, namely, either strain-hardening or strain-softening. Within the strain-softening category, one can distinguish between deflection-hardening and deflection-softening behavior. Several standard tests (ASTM, JCI, RILEM) are available to assess the characteristics of mostly strain-softening FRC composites through bending tests, but no standard test is currently available to characterize strain-hardening response in tension. Such composites have been described as high performance FRC or HPFRC composites. In this paper a proposal is put forth to characterize the response of strain-hardening FRC composites based on the results of direct tensile tests. The classification is based on several parameters which include a minimum value of elastic modulus, a minimum value of peak strain after first cracking, and the tensile strength level. While one of the key obstacles remains, that is, to develop a realistic and meaningful tensile test standard, some requirements on minimum specimen size, fiber size and aggregate size are also suggested.
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