STEEL FIBER REINFORCED

CONCRETE

AATHAVAN V S P
 AGENDA

• WHAT IS STEEL FIBER

REINFORCEMENT CONCRENE ?
• TYPES OF HOOK FIBERS
• ADVANTAGES
• PROPERTIES
• APPLICATIONS OF SFRC
WHAT IS STEEL FIBER REINFORCEMENT CONCRENE ?
Steel fiber reinforced concrete is a composite material
having fibers as the additional ingredients

◦ SFRC products are manufactured by adding steel fibers to the

ingredients of concrete in the mixer and by transferring the green
concrete into moulds. The product is then compacted and cured by
the conventional methods.
◦ Steel fibers are added to concrete to improve the structural
properties, particularly tensile and flexural strength
◦ Additional fines and limiting maximum size of aggregates to 20mm
occasionally, cement contents of 350 kg to 550 kg per cubic meter
are normally needed.
TYPES OF HOOK FIBERS:
• 3D
• 4D
• 5D

• 3D withstands upto 1000 N per sq.mm

• 4D withstands upto 1650 N per sq.mm
• 5D withstands upto 2300 N per sq.mm

• The size of the fibers varies between 0.25 mm and

1.00mm in diameter and from 12mm to 60mm in
length, and the fiber content ranged from 0.3 to 2.5
percent by volume.
• Higher contests of fiber up to 10% have also been
experimented.
• Addition of steel fibers up to 5% by volume
increased the flexural strength to about 2.5 times
that of plain concrete.
ADVANTAGES
Mixing steel fibers considerably improves,
the structural properties of concrete,
particularly tensile and flexural strength.
 Ductility and post cracking strength
 resistance to fatigue
 spalling and wear and tear of SFRC
are higher than in the case of conventional reinforced concrete.
 The use of steel fibers in fly ash concrete improves its structural
properties, especially the flexural tensile strength. Increasing the
percentages of fly ash upto 30% and steel fibers upto 1.5% in
concrete enhances the flexural tensile strength as well as the
compressive strength.
PROPERTIES
APPLICATIONS OF SFRC
◦ Industrial Ground Floor Slabs
◦ Warehouses, Factories
◦ Aircraft Hangers, Roads
◦ Bridge Decks, Parking Areas
◦ Runways
◦ Aprons and Taxiways
◦ Commercial and Residential Slabs
◦ Piling
◦ Shotcrete
◦ Tunnels
◦ Dams and stabilisation.
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