Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of the Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Prof. Dr. Jianan Qi
Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of the Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
A theoretical method, termed the mesoscale fiber-matrix discrete model (MFDM), has been developed that can be used for estimating the shear contribution of steel fibers and calculating shear strength of ultrahigh-performance fiber-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) beams. In the proposed model, an effective fiber distributed region (EDR) along the critical diagonal shear crack, where fibers are efficient at providing shear resistance, is defined. The total quantity of fibers within EDR is calculated by the EDR volume proportion of the beam based on a uniform distribution of steel fibers. Two concepts to determine the width of EDR are proposed: (1) probability theory and (2) the basis of the pullout load slip relationship. The bond strength between a single fiber and the matrix is determined by the probability method based on a uniform distribution of fibers. Combining the number of efficient fibers and the bond strength of a single fiber, the shear contribution of fibers is derived. The shear contributi...
6 June 2019 in Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering