Abstract
This research investigates the electromechanical damage-sensing behavior of strain-hardening steel fiber-reinforced cement composites (SH-SFRCs) with six types of steel fibers (1.5% volume fraction content) within an identical mortar matrix (90MPa). The six types of steel fibers studied are long twisted (T30/0.3), long smooth (S30/0.3), long hooked (H30/0.375), medium twisted (T20/0.2), medium smooth (S19/0.2), and short smooth (S13/0.2) steel fibers. The damage-sensing behavior was evaluated by measuring the changes in the electrical resistance during direct tensile tests. The electrical resistivity of the SH-SFRCs clearly decreased as the tensile strain increased until the post-cracking point, owing to the generation of multiple micro-cracks during strain-hardening. All the SH-SFRCs investigated had nominal gauge factors ranging between 50 and 140; these values are much higher than the commercially conventional gauge factor, which involves metal and is around 2. Both T30/0.3 and T20/0.2 produced the highest gauge factor, i.e., the best damage-sensing capacity, whereas S13/0.2 produced the highest electrical conductivity.
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