TY - BOOK ID - 8657096 TI - Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete AU - Tejchman, Jacek AU - Tejchman, Jacek. AU - Kozicki, Jan. PY - 2010 SN - 3642422551 3642146023 9786613002389 3642146031 1283002388 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Mechanics, Applied. KW - Reinforced concrete -- Mathematical models. KW - Reinforced concrete -- Testing. KW - Fibrous composites KW - Chemical & Materials Engineering KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Civil Engineering KW - Materials Science KW - Hydraulic Engineering KW - Fiber-reinforced concrete. KW - Steel, Structural. KW - Structural steel KW - Fibrous concrete KW - FRC (Fiber-reinforced concrete) KW - Reinforced concrete, Fiber KW - Engineering. KW - Geotechnical engineering. KW - Mechanics. KW - Engineering geology. KW - Engineering KW - Foundations. KW - Hydraulics. KW - Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. KW - Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. KW - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. KW - Geology. KW - Building materials KW - Civil engineering KW - Girders KW - Building, Iron and steel KW - Iron and steel bridges KW - Iron, Structural KW - Structural steel industry KW - Reinforced concrete KW - Hydraulic engineering. KW - Mechanics, applied. KW - Applied mechanics KW - Engineering, Mechanical KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Engineering, Hydraulic KW - Fluid mechanics KW - Hydraulics KW - Shore protection KW - Engineering—Geology. KW - Architecture KW - Building KW - Structural engineering KW - Underground construction KW - Caissons KW - Earthwork KW - Masonry KW - Soil consolidation KW - Soil mechanics KW - Walls KW - Geology, Economic KW - Classical mechanics KW - Newtonian mechanics KW - Physics KW - Dynamics KW - Quantum theory KW - Engineering, Geotechnical KW - Geotechnics KW - Geotechnology KW - Engineering geology KW - Flow of water KW - Water KW - Hydraulic engineering KW - Jets KW - Details KW - Geology KW - Flow KW - Distribution UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8657096 AB - Concrete is still the most widely used construction material since it has the lowest ratio between cost and strength as compared to other available materials. However, it has two undesirable properties, namely: low tensile strength and large brittleness that cause the collapse to occur shortly after the formation of the first crack. To improve these two negative properties and to achieve a partial substitute of conventional reinforcement, an addition of short discontinuous randomly oriented steel fibres can be practiced among others. In spite of positive properties, fibrous concrete did not find such acknowledgment and application as usual concrete. There do not still exist consistent dimensioning rules due to the lack sufficient large-scale static and dynamic experiments taking into account the effect of the fibre orientation. The intention of the book is twofold: first to summarize the most important mechanical and physical properties of steel-fibre-added concrete and reinforced concrete on the basis of numerous experiments described in the scientific literature, and second to describe a quasi-static fracture process at meso-scale both in plain concrete and fibrous concrete using a novel discrete lattice model. In 2D and 3D simulations of fibrous concrete specimens under uniaxial tension, the effect of the fibre volume, fibre distribution, fibre orientation, fibre length, fibrous bond strength and specimen size on both the stress-strain curve and fracture process was carefully analyzed. ER -