Effect of Basalt Fiber on Uniaxial Compression-Related Constitutive Relation and Compressive Toughness of Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Abstract

The deformation performance of recycled aggregate concrete can be effectively improved when basalt fiber is reasonably added. In this paper, the effects of the basalt fiber volume fraction and the length-diameter ratio on the uniaxial compression-related failure characteristics, feature points of the complete stress-strain curve and the compressive toughness of recycled concrete under different replacement rates of recycled coarse aggregate were studied. The results showed that with the increase in the fiber volume fraction, the peak stress and peak strain of basalt fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete first increased and then decreased. With the increase in the fiber length-diameter ratio, the peak stress and strain of the basalt fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete first increased and then decreased, whereas the effect of the length-diameter ratio on peak stress and strain of the basalt fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete was clearly smaller than that of the fiber volume fraction. Based on the test results, an optimized stress-strain curve model of concrete under uniaxial compression was proposed for the basalt fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete. Furthermore, it was found that the fracture energy is more suitable for evaluating the compressive toughness of the basalt fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete than the tensile-compression ratio.