Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2016, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (5): 55-60.

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INFLUENCE OF PVA FIBER CONTENT ON FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OFREINFORCED HPFRCC/CONCRETE COMPOSITE BEAMS

LI Yan, PAN Yan-qiu, CHEN Wei-feng   

  1. School of Civil Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China
  • Received:2015-12-28 Online:2016-05-25 Published:2016-05-25

Abstract: In order to improve the shortcoming of easy-cracking of reinforced concrete beams, concrete of tension zone can be partly replaced by HPFRCC to make reinforced HPFRCC/concrete composite beam. Based on experiments on normal section flexural behavior of composite beams, the influence of PVA fiber content by volume on flexural performance of composite beams were studied. Experimental results indicate that the HPFRCC layer in tension zone can inhibit and disperse the extension of cracks effectively and the crack distribution of composite beams are similar to root system. With the increase of PVA fiber content by volume, cracks become more fine. After cracking, the strain increases of tension steel and compression concrete slow down owing to the bridging effect of PVA fiber. Compared with ordinary concrete beam, the cracking load, yielding load and ultimate load of composite beams are all increased and the increases of cracking load are more obvious.

Key words: high performance fiber reinforced cement composite, PVA fiber, composite beam, flexural behavior

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