Evaluation of Flexural Strength for Normal and High Strength Concrete with Hooked Steel Fibers
The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of high strength concretes reinforced with hooked steel fiber. For this purpose, total 36 specimens whose variables are concrete compressive strength, steel fiber aspect ratio, and steel fiber volume contents, are made and tested. From the test results including previous research work, flexural performance of steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete is evaluated in terms of flexural strength and toughness index. Flexural behavior of steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete is enhanced with respect to the fiber volume content, the aspect ratio, and concrete compressive strength. More efforts are devoted to evaluate quantitatively between the flexural strength and the structural parameters such as the fiber volume content, the aspect ratio, and concrete compressive strength.
The orthogonal features of the guided wave-modes have been discussed in details for a two-layered plate with a weak interface. The elastic operator is proved to be a self-adjoint operator under the weak interface modeled by the spring model. However, it is proved to be non-self-adjoint operator, and a new orthogonal relation is derived for the weak interface modeled by the density model. The theoretical analyses are verified by numerical calculations for the spring model.