Abstract
Concrete is a typical brittle material. Although it has excellent compressive performance, it can be damaged by dynamic loads such as explosions and impacts due to its poor tensile strength and cracking susceptibility. In an attempt to improve the impact resistance of concrete, a ∅100 × 50 split Hopkinson pressure bar was used to carry out impact tests on high-strength concrete (HSC) specimens with different volume contents (0.1%, 0.3% and 0.5%) of basalt fibre (BF) or polypropylene fibre (PPF) under three different impact pressures. The compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural strength and dynamic compression performance of BF/PPF-reinforced HSC (C60) were studied. With an increase in impact pressure, increasing the volume content of fibre significantly improved the impact resistance of the concrete, due to the crack resistance and bridging effects of the fibre. The BF and PPF were found to be sensitive to the strain rate. Within a certain range of strain rate, the relationship between peak stress and strain rate was positively correlated. Dynamic stress–strain curves of concretes with optimal dosages of BF and PPF were obtained through dynamic compression tests.
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