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Abdul Ghani* Peiping Li* Jehangir Alam1 Amir Hamza Khan1 Mehran Ahmad1
*School of Civil Engineering and Architecture Wuhan University of Technology, China.
1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
KEYWORDS ABSTRACT
Ultra-high-performance fibre- Ultra-high-performance fibre reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) is one of the most advanced concrete in the
reinforced concrete, field of construction, with very high strength compared to ordinary concrete. It is more effective in
Optimization, mechanical properties and durability. This review study provides a brief foundation for the UHPFRC beam
beam. with the optimization of steel rebars (R-UHPFRC). Compressive strength, tensile flexural strength and beam
cracking are studied in this review.
deflection load in the UHPC beam were reduced due to the addition
1. Introduction: of steel fibre, and post-cracking stiffness and load-carrying capacity
was improved. Ductility was found to be low by adding fibres. K
Concrete is the most widely used material in the world. Mainly the Wille (Wille, El-Tawil, and Naaman 2014) studied nine different
use of concrete is increasing day by day. Concrete comprises coarse UHPFRCs of performance level 4 of direct tensile were investigated
aggregate, sand, pozzolanic material, mineral admixture and a and concluded a strong dependency on fibre content. Three types of
binder like cement and lime. Concrete is used in dams, canals, fibre were used in this study smooth, hooked and twisted. The result
buildings, roads and bridges, etc.; in the frame building structure, showed a little difference in the tensile strength, strain at peak and
concrete is used in slabs, beams and columns, and concrete is weak strength, energy absorption, and high flexibility. This experimental
in tension and stronger in compression (Min, Yao, and Jiang 2014). work shows the material's high flexibility and energy-absorbing
With the usage of concrete, development is also occurring in capacity, which can be effective in high-strain rate applications like
construction and engineering. For special purposes, concrete is blast and impact loads. A study (Zhang, Shao, and Zhu 2020) has
prepared by using different pozzolanic materials and admixtures. been carried out to study the behaviour of concrete by using a dog
Steel fibre is used in concrete to increase the compressive and tensile bone-shaped concrete material having two types of members one is
properties of the structural members like beams, columns, slabs or UHPFRC without steel bar, and the other is R-UHPFRC. In
any other structural member. This special concrete is called UHPC. comparing both, the increase in fibre fraction from 2% to 3.5% by
In many countries, more work has been done on UHPC (Yoo and volume in R-UHPFRC, the strain hardening is increasing for more
Banthia 2017). UHPC is a widely used concrete type in building fibre content. As the fibre content increases from 2% to 3.5%, the
components, bridges, repairs and rehabilitations, architectural parts peak strength and first visible cracking vary between 8.5% to 8.7%,
of the structure, and vertical components such as windmills towers while the tensile stiffness improves by 5.0% to 8.7% depending on
and utility towers to oil and gas industrial applications, offshore bar size and steel ratio. A higher steel ratio increases the tensile
structures and hydraulic structures. Among all these structures, behaviour, especially the peak strength of R-UHPFRC increases
roads and bridges is the most popular application of UHPC(Voo, from 2.8 to 5.1 times with an increasing steel ratio compared to the
Foster, and Pek 2017). Many countries have started the usage of the same specimen of UHPFRC with the same fibre content volume.
UHPC, like China, Australia, the USA, Canada, France, Germany, The load-carrying capacity of steel rebar is fully utilized during the
Japan, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, Slovenia and tension stiffening process of R-UHPFRC with immense cracking.
Switzerland (Azmee and Shafiq 2018).many studies have been The use of steel bars in UHPFRC is very effective in strain
performed because Ultra high-performance fibre reinforced hardening capacity and increases the member's pre-peak tensile
concrete (UHPFRC) is a meagre water-to-cement ratio (W/C), high ductility. With increasing steel ratio, the post-peak tensile ductility
volume content of steel fibre, and high fines admixture give an also improves in R-UHPFRC. The study concludes that increasing
excellent mechanical performance, energy absorption capacity, the steel fibre content may increase the tensile behaviour
fatigue and durability enhancement(Yoo, Kang, and Yoon 2014). significantly in R-UHPFRC. Still, it is technically feasible and
Aside from all these properties, UHPC is mainly using for high economically viable to place a steel bars to reduce the steel fibre
strength of tensile and bending loading in civil infrastructural contents in concrete without deteriorating the tensile strength.
structures. In the study (Yoo and Yoon 2015), the elastic modulus, Ahmad et al (Ahmed, Mallick, and Abul Hasan 2016) studied the
compressive strength, and flexural performance, including flexural effect of the size of specimen on flexural tensile strength of concrete.
strength and deflection capacity, are improved by a considerable They concluded that concrete member size have significant effect
amount. Using either twisted or smooth steel fibre can help in on strength, they proposed an equation incorporating the effect of
material performance. The cracking load and corresponding size of concrete for predicting the flexural tensile strength of
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concrete. Thus by adding steel fibre to UHPC and also the
optimization of steel bar in beam (showed in the fig 1) may also
contribute in the strength enhancement and improving the other
In a study (Kamal et al. 2014) 60-litre mixer was used for the mixing
of three mixes of concrete based on the compressive strength
criterion. 10% silica fume was replaced by cement, 0.5%
superplasticizer, 40 and 1kg/m3 steel fibre and polypropylene fibre
were used. Nine cubes were cast of different mixes to determine the
compressive strength of the concrete having steel fibre content; from
this result, the compressive strength is increased with steel fibre
content shown in table 1.
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Figure 2: tensile vs strain Curve
2.3. Cracking:
3. Conclusion:
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Figure 3: crack pattern of Beam
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