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In this chapter it will be discussed the possibility of steel fibers to mitigate the size effect in large beams. For that, an experimental program consisting in 9 beams with h = 500, 1,000 and 1,500 mm, made with three types of concretes with 0, 50 and 75 kg/m3 of fibers was done. The beams were tested with a/d = 3 for all cases. The concrete was manufactured in a concrete plant of Italcementi Group, while the tests were carried entirely at the laboratory “Pietro Pisa” of the University of Brescia.
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Cuenca, E. (2015). Experimental Tests on Fibers Influence on the Size Effect on Shear. In: On Shear Behavior of Structural Elements Made of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13686-8_5
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