Effect of Internal Reinforcement on the Tensile Characteristics of the UHP SHCC Material | ||
| International Journal of Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering | ||
| Volume 01, Issue 02 - Serial Number 1012017, May 2017 PDF (975.58 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asge.2017.254643 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amira Elnagar* 1; ahmed baraghith1; Hamdy Afefy2; Mohammed Hussein1 | ||
| 1Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University. | ||
| 2Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Ultra High Performance Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites (UHP SHCC) is one form of fiber reinforced composites, which has high compressive and tensile strengths along with high strain capacity in tension with strain hardening plateau. Obviously, proper selection of strengthening/retrofitting material plays an important role in restoring the lost capacity of the strengthened/retrofitted member. This paper investigated experimentally the effect of internal reinforcement in the UHP SHCC specimens on the tensile strength as well as the cracking characteristics. Seven UHP SHCC specimens with identical dimensions of 500 x 150 x 50 mm were tested under pure axial tension. Different configurations of the internal reinforcement were considered; namely, internal orthogonal mesh of clear spacing of 50 mm in both directions, or smooth bars of 6 mm diameter. For both configurations, different reinforcement ratios were considered. The experiential results showed that the internal mesh configuration enabled the specimen to develop better crack distribution along with higher tensile capacity compared to those of specimens having internal smooth bars configurations. In addition, increasing the internal reinforcement ratio resulted in increase the tensile strength of the UHP SHCC as well as reduce the average crack spacing. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Reinforced Concrete; Axial Tension; UHP SHCC; Strengthening; Material | ||
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