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This chapter starts with a timeline of various key historical events that led to the development of the concrete that we are using today for the construction. The last 200 years saw a systematic growth of organized research efforts in the field of the concrete technology; it is now an established fact that the properties of any material originate from its internal microstructure. This chapter describes the established microstructure of the concrete in detail along with the factors that affect it and explains how it plays an important role in controlling the stress-strain response of the concrete under a tension and the compressive type of loading. The stability of the concrete macrostructure and the consequential improvement in the concrete properties that the inclusion of the fibers in the mix would bring in is also described.
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Singh, H. (2017). Introduction. In: Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2507-5_1
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