Experimental investigation of prestressed beam made from ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete

Abstract

The paper presents experimental results prestressed beam made of high-strength fiber reinforced concrete. The I-shaped beam with a height of 0.2 m and a length of 2.8 m was tested in a four-point scheme until the bending load capacity was achieved. The element was prestressed with one tendon Y1860S7 with a diameter of 12.5. The fiber reinforced concrete was made with KrampeHarex DM12.5/0.175 fibers. Concrete was tested in compression (fc ≈ 110 MPa) and in tension, checking the resistance in both the splitting test (fct,sp ≈ 17.5 MPa) and the three-point bending test (fct,fl ≈ 11.9 MPa). After fabrication and prestressing of the beam, changes in strains on the element's surface were observed for 19 days, after which destructive test was conducted. During the test deflections and deformations of the element were recorded. The failure was as a result of bending and followed yielding of the prestressing strand and the subsequent formation of one localised crack. The calculation of the load carrying capacity in the light of the SIA 2052 standard, assuming the elasto-plastic material model of the fibre reinforced concrete, showed good agreement with the experimental results