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An Initial Report on the Effect of the Fiber Orientation on the Fracture Behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete

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Short Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites and Ceramics

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This paper presents a report about work in progress of research on the influence of the fiber orientations on the tensile strength of steel fiber concrete. Different fiber orientations in different parts of a structural element are caused by the casting process. Here, as an example, a small plate was cast of self-compacting concrete containing hooked-end steel fibers. The plate was cut into three beams, which in turn have been subjected to X-ray Computed Tomography scanning to obtain fiber orientations and to three-point bending test, to assess the tensile strength and fracture behaviour.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding by the Estonian Research Council by the exploratory research grant PUT1146.

We also thank Maria Kremsreiter who helped during her Erasmus+ internship at the Institute of Cybernetics. Therefore: With the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

Thanks to E-Betoonelement, especially Aare Lessuk, Rasmus-R. Marjapuu and Sergei Graf, for preparing the experiment plate.

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    Heiko Herrmann, Andres Braunbrück & Oksana Goidyk

  2. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Andres Braunbrück, Tanel Tuisk & Hendrik Naar

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Herrmann, H., Braunbrück, A., Tuisk, T., Goidyk, O., Naar, H. (2019). An Initial Report on the Effect of the Fiber Orientation on the Fracture Behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete. In: Herrmann, H., Schnell, J. (eds) Short Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites and Ceramics. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00868-0_3

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