CE6811-PROJECT

WORK
 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON STEEL FIBER REINFORCED
CONCRETE BY USING HOOKED END STEEL FIBER

PROJECT GUIDE: PROJECT MEMBERS:

Dr.ILANGO SIVAKUMAR,M.E.,Ph.D K.VEERAMANI
S.DESINGU RAJ
P.MARUTHUPANDIYAN
M.KATHIR
INTRODUCTION:
 The concrete is relatively fragile and tensile strength is generally only about one tenth of the
pressure force.

 The tensile properties of concrete can be improved by randomly dispersing discrete fibers to
the mixture during mixing process.

 Concrete with random discrete steel fibers can generally be termed Steel Fiber Reinforced
Concrete (SFRC).

 The main reason for adding steel fibers to improve the post cracking such as plastic
shrinkage cracking, control the width of cracks due to loading and improve energy
absorption & ductility.
OBJECTIVES:

The main objective this project is to get the knowledge of the

properties of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete.

 To study the effect of steel fibers on concrete in various strengths

such as compressive, split tensile and flexural strength.

 To determine the advantages of SFRC over conventional concrete by

comparing the test results of them.
LITERATURE REVIEW:
Abdul Ghaffar, Amit S.Chavhan and Dr.R.S.Tatwawadi.(2014) This research based
on the hooked steel fibers on plain concrete. From this they determined the workability
decreases with increase in fiber and the max percentage increase in compressive &
flexural strength achieved at 3% & 4% of fiber volume fractions.

Dr.K.Chandrasekher reddy, S.Jagadeesh.(2017) Was done the mechanical properties

of concrete using different type of steel fibers. They concluded that the compressive,
split tensile and flexural strengths was increases with the addition of crimped (2%),
hooked(2%) and straight(2%) steel fibers and ductility increased due to the addition of
crimped steel fibers to OPC.
E.Arunakanthi, J.D.Chaitanya kumar.(2016) The aim of this study is to study the
effect of glass and steel fibers in concrete. They concluded that the strength is increasing
while increase the steel fiber content. But in case glass fiber,the strength is increasing up
to 1%. After 1% the strength is reducing.

Pramod Kawde, Abhijit Warudkar.(2017) In this paper Past studies based on the steel
fiber is studied in detail. They found out that the steel fibers improve concrete properties.

Gourav Gupta, Sameer Malhotra(2018). The objective of this paper is to study the
effect of using polypropylene fiber on concrete.
METHODOLOGY
MIX DESIGN

COLLECTION OF MATERIALS

MEASUREMENT OF MATERIALS
FOR SFRC

MAKING OF SFRC FRESH CONCRETE

CASTING OF CONCRETE SLUMP CONE TEST

CURING OF CONCRETE

TESTING ON HARDENED
CONCRETE

RESULTS AND COMPARISON

CONCLUSION
 MIX DESIGN:
Data:
Grade of designation : M25
Type of cement : PPC (53 grade)
Size of coarse aggregate : 20mm
Workability(slump) : 75 – 100 mm
Exposure condition : Mild
Specific gravity of cement : 3.15
Specific gravity of Fine aggregate : 2.69
Specific gravity of coarse aggregate : 2.71
 In this project we use the Manufactured sand instead of using River sand as fine aggregate.

 From the result of sieve analysis of M.sand is fall in Zone I of IS 383 – 2016 (Table 9).

MIX PROPORTIONING:

Water cement ratio : 0.5

Cement content : 394.3 Kg

Fine aggregate content : 730 Kg

Coarse aggregate content : 1104.12 Kg

MIX RATIO:

1 : 1.85 : 2.8
PROPERTIES OF STEEL FIBERS:
Type of fibre : Hooked end steel fiber
Length : 20.8 mm
Diameter : 0.5 mm
Aspect ratio : 41.6
Tensile strength : 1100 MPa
Material : Stainless steel
 Hooked end steel fiber (2)

Hooked end steel fiber (1)

Experimental work and Tests:

Concrete with addition of steel fiber Casting

Curing Slump cone test
 Split tensile strength
test
Compressive strength test

Flexural strength test

 Results and Discussions:
Slump cone test results
Mixes Fiber in % W/C ratio Slump value

M0 0 0.5 88

M1 1 0.5 82

M2 2 0.5 75

M3 3 0.5 69

M4 4 0.5 60
Slump value vs percentage of steel fiber graph

Slump vs Steel fiber

100

90

80

70

60
Slump (Cm)

50

40

30

20

10

0
0 1 2 3 4

Steel

Steel fiber (%)

Compressive strength of conventional concrete and SFRC

S.No Mix Fiber Compressive Strength % of variation in

Design content fcu, MPa compressive strength
. Volume over conventional
fraction (%) concrete
7 days 28 days 7 days 28 days

1 M0 0 18.61 30.4 - -
2 M1 1 19 31 2.09 1.97
3 M2 2 19.82 32.21 6.5 5.95
4 M3 3 20.74 33.86 11.44 11.38
5 M4 4 19.15 32.88 2.90 8.15
Compression strength vs percentage of steel fiber graph

Compressive strength (MPa)

Compressive strength vs percentage of steel fiber

40

35

30

25

20

15

10

5 7 days 28 days

0
0 1 2 3 4

volume of steel fiber (%)

Split tensile strength of conventional concrete and SFRC

S.No Mix Fiber Split tensile strength % of variation in Split

Design. content fcu, MPa tensile strength over
Volume conventional concrete
fraction (%) 7 days 28 days 7 days 28 days

1 M0 0 2 3.16 - -
2 M1 1 2.088 3.28 4.43 4
3 M2 2 2.126 3.42 6.3 8.5
4 M3 3 2.05 3.32 2.53 5.15
5 M4 4 2.025 3.24 1.26 2.5
Split tensile strength vs percentage of steel fiber graph

Split tensile strength (MPa)

Split tensile strength vs percentage of steel fiber
4

3.5

2.5

1.5

0.5 7 days 28 days

0
0 1 2 3 4

volume of steel fiber (%)

Flexural strength of conventional concrete and SFRC

S.No Mix Fiber Flexural strength fcu, % of variation in

Design content MPa Flexural strength
. Volume over conventional
fraction (%) concrete
7 days 28 days 7 days 28 days

1 M0 0 1.95 3.97 - -
2 M1 1 2.02 4.21 3.77 6.15
3 M2 2 2.21 4.82 13.58 21.53
4 M3 3 2.39 5 23 26.13
5 M4 4 2.26 4.62 16.37 15.38
Flexural strength vs percentage of steel fiber graph

Flexural strength (MPa)

Flexural strength vs percentage of steel fiber

7 days 28 days
1

0
0 1 2 3 4

volume of steel fiber (%)

Conclusion:
• Workability decreases with increase in Steel fiber content.

• The compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength are considerably
increased up to addition of 3% of steel fiber. The maximum value of strength gained by
steel fiber in compressive, split tensile and flexural strength are 33.86MPa, 3.42MPa
and 5MPa and the maximum percentage increasing in these strengths over
conventional concrete strength is 5.95%, 8.5% and 26.13% respectively.

• Steel fiber increase the capacity to resist loading to the optimum content of steel fiber
in concrete when compared to conventional mix concrete.
• The optimum percentage steel fiber changes depending on the method of mixing,
type & aspect ratio of steel fiber, type of loading and mix ratio of concrete.

• The addition of steel fiber is not stop the crack formation in concrete. Rather than
it only minimise the width of cracks.

• Also ductility of concrete is increased with inclusion of higher fiber content.

References:
• IS.383, “Specifications for Coarse and Fine Aggregates from Natural Sources for
Concrete,” Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi, 1970.
• I.S.1489-1991, “Specification for Portland pozzolana cement Part 1 Fly ash based
(Third Revision)”, Bureau of Indian Standard,New Delhi, 1991.
• I.S.456-2000, “Indian Standard Code of Practice for Plain and Reinforced Concrete,
(fourth Revision)”, Bureau of Indian Standard, New Delhi, 2000.
• I.S.10262-2009, “Indian Standard Recommended Guidelines for Concrete Mix
Design”, Bureau of Indian Standard, New Delhi,2009.
• IS 516 (Reaffirmed 1999), “Method of Test for Strength of Concrete.” BIS New
Delhi, 1959, pp. 1-25.
• Abdul Ghaffar, Amit s. Chavhan, Dr.R.S.Tatwawadi, “Steel Fibre Reinforced
Concrete “, IJETT, Vol 9, No 15 – 2014.
• Dr.K.Chandrasekar Reddy, S.Jegadeesh, “Mechanical Properties of Concrete after
Addition of Different Types of Steel Fibres “, IJAIEM, Vol 6, No 7 – 2017.
• E.Arunakanthi, J.D.Chaitanya Kumar, “EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON FIBER
REINFORCED CONCRETE“, IJCIET,Vol 7, No 5 – 2016.
• Pramod Kawade, Abhijit Warudkar, “STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE A
RIVIEW“, IJESRT, Vol 3, No 15 – 2017.
• Gourav Gupta, Sameer Malhotra, “A Case on Fibre Reinforced Concrete“, IJRASET,
Vol 6, No 4 – 2018.
• Mr.Nikil A.Gadge, Prof.S.S.Vidhale, “Mix Design of Fiber Reinforced Concrete Using
Slag & Steel Fiber“, IJMER, Vol 3, No 6 – 2013.