Non-Traditional Reinforcement for Concrete Composites - State of the Art

2007
Andrejs Krasņikovs, Videvuds Ārijs Lapsa, Māris Eiduks

Main building material - concrete - is strong in comprlession, but weak in tension. The tensile strength of concrete is only about 10% (for conventional concretes) of its compressive strength. To compensate concrete's low tensile strength, concrete members are reinforced to carry tensile loads. Mechanically two different reinforcement acting mechanisms can be recognized.

Keywords
fibers, composite materials, concrete

Krasņikovs, A., Lapsa, V., Eiduks, M. Non-Traditional Reinforcement for Concrete Composites - State of the Art. Mechanics. Vol.24, 2007, pp.191-199. ISSN 1407-8015.

Publication language
English (en)