Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete

Steel fibre reinforced concrete for structures is little known. This book focuses on flat horizontal cast in-situ applications -- slabs; and raft slab foundations. Plus testing, and shrinkage and cracking, fire resistance of slabs and walls, and environmental benefits.

Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) for structures dates back to 1925, yet it remains largely unknown to many engineers and contractors. Essential information is often buried in codes, reports, and standards. This book presents the essential information required by engineers to utilize SFRC effectively, achieving superior results across a range of applications.The focus is on its most common use in flat, horizontal cast in situ applications, such as ground-bearing slabs, ground-suspended slabs, suspended elevated slabs, and raft slab foundations for buildings, which present more opportunities than three-dimensional structures. Prefabrication and paving are discussed where they intersect with these main applications. Material and structural testing are addressed to guide the design for these typical applications, with attention also given to shrinkage, cracking, fire resistance of slabs and walls, and environmental benefits, alongside future opportunities and challenges. This unique book provides simple practical guidance for designing and placing SFRC It is especially helpful for design-and-build contractors and professional engineers It offers simple tools and methods to launch a project

Autorentext

Xavier Destrée is a consulting engineer and former R&D consultant to ARBED, a world-wide steel company. He is a member of numerous technical committees issuing SFRC standards, guidelines and reports in several countries, a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, and arguably the world's leading authority on SFRC.

Inhalt

1. Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Basics.

2. SFRC Material properties and Standard hardened material properties

3. The need to test real structures, from ground bearing to elevated suspended slabs

4. SFRC Pile supported slabs (G-SFRS)

5. SFRC suspended elevated slabs(E-SFRS)

6. Fire Resistance of elevated suspended SFRC slabs (E-SFRS) and walls

7. SFRC Foundations

8. Shrinkage of slabs

9. SFRC Slabs vs. Self-Stressing S.F.R.C. jointless slabs (a Primekss invention)

10. SFRC Design standard documents and slabs

11. SFRC Metal Decking

12. The Sustainability Challenges.