Abstract

High performance short fiber reinforced cementitious composites, named as engineered cementitious composite (ECC), have been realized with reaching several percent of tensile strain capacity. The scope of this study is to establish practical design guidelines for ECC based on micromechanics. These guidelines were set in terms of newly proposed performance indices, stress index and energy index. Uniaxial tensile test data adopting five different ECCs showed these indices successfully express saturation degree of multiple cracking, which enable us to predict the tensile strain capacity of ECCs. As a result, one can design ECC so as to achieve fully saturated multiple cracking and high strain capacity by controlling the performance indices.

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