Avaliação experimental do comportamento do concreto fluido reforçado com fibras de aço: influência do fator de forma e da fração volumétrica das fibras nas propriedades mecânicas do concreto

Abstract

The development of new technologies in the production of concrete over time is allowing increase its compressive strength, workability and durability. Despite their many advantages, concrete has limitations related to its fragile behavior in the presence of tensile loads. An alternative to solve this problem is the use of fibers in the concrete, getting a composite material that has different characteristics of the original material. Seeking collaborate with the evaluation about the efficiency of different fiber types, this work analyses the behavior of fluid concrete reinforced with steel fibers, subjected to tensile loads, evaluating the influence of shape factor and volumetric fraction. The ability of flow has served as a reference for concrete can be used on parts with high rates of reinforcement, whose compacting is not fully efficient. However, because it is a cementitious matrix, the concentration of tensile strength on these points of high rates of reinforcement, may trigger a harmful process of cracking. Are analyzed in this work the effects of the incorporation of steel fibers in the workability, the incorporated air content, the compressive strength, the tensile strength and modulus of elasticity. Additionally, a comparison is made between the relationship of the compression strength and tensile of the experimental results with the theoretical relationships of the tensile strength found in the literature , and finally, was seek by the mixture rules evaluate whose parameters of the study are more influents on the behavior of the new composite. For this, were used specimens tests cylindrical of dimensions of 10cm x 20cm of fluid concrete with regular resistance, with percentage of steel fiber of 0,4% and 0,8% of the cement mass and shape factors of 33, 50 and 80, for each of the percentage, in tests of tensile by diametrical compression. Obtained results allowed display, from changes in shape factor and volumetric fraction added to fluid cementitious matrix, that fibers with larger shape factor and higher volumetric fraction tend to be more efficient in the tensile strength of fluid composites.