Mechanical properties of mixed steel fiber reinforced concrete with the combination of micro and macro steel fibers

Abstract

AbstractThe paper intends to analyze and study the features of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) and plain concrete that contains combined fibers of various aspect ratios. Experiments on works are held to examine the features of the new combination of concretes. Simultaneously, the characteristics of the concretes that are hardened are examined by performing tests on compressions, flexural strength tests, and split tensile strength (STS). It further verifies the effects of fibers when they are distributed in the hinged zone of structural components to obtain financial benefits by minimizing the ingredients in steel fiber in the concrete mix. The result shows that the combined reinforced concrete steel fiber can be employed as the better combination to be applied in SFRC for achieving strength in STS, and flexure. Anyhow, enhanced ability for working was achieved as more amounts of microfibers in mixed with concrete. And there is slight variation in the features of concrete between beam of fibers with full length and fibers which are available in hinged zone. Similarly, the categorization of neural network such as Neural Network–Levenberg–Marquardt (NN‐LM) and Neural Network‐Gradient Descent (NN‐GD) is further used to perform the experimentation in an intelligent manner, which comes close to the actual values while calculating the mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) values.