Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Fracture Characteristics of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Recycled Aggregate Concrete
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Abstract Fracture parameters of fiber concrete (FC) are currently a hot research area. Fracture mechanics is the field of solid mechanics that helps to study the type and propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of calculating the driving force on a crack and characterizes the material's resistance to fracture. Behavioral characteristics are determined by crack mouth opening displacement and the load–deflection method. This research identifies the fracture parameters of 33 notched simply supported beams made by recycled aggregate cement concrete with steel fiber. The recycled aggregate ratio in concrete has been altered to determine the effect on the mechanical and fracture properties. For determining fracture parameters, a 3-point bending single-edge notched fracture test was used. The results indicated that the steel fiber-reinforced concrete made with recycled aggregate showed similar performance and fracture characteristics compared to normal concrete. Thus, adding steel fibers to various concrete mixes considerably improved the fracture characteristics, while the brittleness was reduced with increased steel fiber content. Linear regression analysis also showed the accuracy of mechanical strength results as the value of R-square was close to unity. Displacement, ultimate load, brittleness (B), fracture toughness (KIC), crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD), fracture energy (GF), modulus of elasticity (E), and characteristic length (lch), were determined for both conventional and recycled aggregate specimens. The “work of fracture"—by definition the formula—is the most reliable to calculate the fracture energy as the nonlinearity is related to the performance of FC.
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