MECHANICAL AND SHRINKAGE BEHAVIOR OF BASALT FIBER REINFORCED ULTRA-HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE

Abstract

Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) is considered to be a new development of concrete technology with excellent workability, high compressive strength, toughness, and long durability, etc. These characteristics are achieved by the synthetic application of strength enhancements such as the use of mineral additives, optimum particle distribution and especially the use of fiber reinforcement which greatly enhances flexural strength and toughness for the UHPC. In this paper, the influence of basalt fiber content on some properties of UHPC such as workability, compressive strength, flexural strength, elastic modulus and shrinkage were investigated. The results of this paper show that use of basalt fiber with reasonable content will not affect the workability of the concrete mixture while increasing the flexural strength, compressive strength, and elastic modulus of the UHPC. The compressive strength of concrete reaches over 120 MPa, flexural strength is over 10 MPa. UHPC sample using 1.5% fiber content will give the highest compressive and flexural strength values, this value increased about 8.5% compared to the control sample without fibers.