Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Shape Memory Alloy Fibre-Reinforced ECC Composite | ||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||
| Article 12, Volume 11, 11PthP International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, April 2016, Pages 1-11 PDF (129.18 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2016.43423 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed A.E.M. Ali1; Moncef L. Nehdi2 | ||
| 1Egyptian Armed Forces. | ||
| 2Western University, London, ON, Canada. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract: An innovative hybrid engineered cementitious composite (HECC-SMAF) incorporating randomly dispersed polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and shape memory alloy short fibres (SMA) has been developed in this study. The behaviour of the composite produced with and without NiTi-SMA and/or polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) short fibres was investigated. The experimental results show that utilizing a combination of those fibres can affect the composite by a slight to no increase in compressive strength while it can enhance the flexural capacity by up to 144%. Also, a general reduction in workability was observed due to incorporating those fibres in the composite compared to that of the ECC matrix mixture. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Engineered cementitious composite; shape memory alloy; PVA; NiTi-SMA; fibres | ||
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