Experimental analysis of reinforced fibre-concrete beams

Abstract

This paper presents experimental results of reinforced fibre-concrete beams. The beams were made using different contents of steel fibres (0-1.5% by volume). The numerical procedure developed by the research group for inverse analysis of deformational behaviour of flexural members was used for deriving free-of-shrinkage stress-strain relationships of cracked tensile concrete. This technique is based on layer model and smeared crack approach.