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Correlation between the Barcelona test and the three-point bending test for the characterization of SCFRC

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posted on 2018-03-26, 11:18 authored by Eduardo Galeote, Albert De la Fuente, Sergio Pialarissi-CavalaroSergio Pialarissi-Cavalaro, Ana Blanco-AlvarezAna Blanco-Alvarez
Self-compacting concrete has proved itself to be a suitable solution in many scopes of construction industry. Its higher performance and better flowability has allowed considering its use in new applications. Nevertheless, the brittleness commonly associated to concrete is still present even though it may be compensated with the use of fibres. Several methods included in different guidelines propose tests in order to characterize fibre reinforced concrete, although some of them present some drawbacks concerning the execution or material consumption. The goal of this document is to briefly show the main characterization tests and provide an initial vision of the potential possibilities the use of alternative tests may offer. In this study the three-point bending test, the Barcelona test and the inductive method are described and correlated. In this concern, the results of an experimental campaign which consisted of nine mixtures that included both steel and plastic fibres were analysed in terms of correlating the results obtained between tests. Correlation factors above 0.85 were obtained, proving that an approach to standardised methods by means of non-standardised tests is possible.

Funding

The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) in the scope of the project FIBHAC (IPT-2011-1613-420000). The first author acknowledges the grant FPU provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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IV Congresso Ibero-americano sobre Betão Auto-compactável Livro de comunicações do IV Congesso Ibero-americano sobre Betão Auto-compactável: BAC 2015: FEUP, 6-7 de julho de 2015

Pages

481 - 487

Citation

GALEOTE, E. ...et al., 2015. Correlation between the Barcelona test and the three-point bending test for the characterization of SCFRC. Presented at the IV Congresso Ibero-americano sobre Betão Auto-compactável (BAC 2015), Oporto, Portugal, 6-7 de julho de 2015, pp. 481-487.

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Universidade de Porto

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This paper is a conference paper.

Language

  • en

Location

Oporto, Portugal

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