Principles of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete

Abstract

It is possible to enhance the ability of crack control and inherent brittleness of ordinary concretes by integrating discrete fibers into concretes. Fiber-reinforced concretes are acknowledged as high-performance building materials due to their high levels of toughness under tensile and compressive loads. It is therefore broadly applied in precast structures, bridges, tunnels, and high-rise buildings. Societal demand has raised the requirements for advanced fiber-reinforced concrete composites with multifunctionality and ultra-high performance such as self-regulating, self-clearing, self-sensing, and self-healing. These special issues focus on the emerging ideas that permit the development of improved or new fiber-reinforced concrete composites and characterizations of the features of advanced fiber-reinforced concretes. Original research papers and authoritative review journals explain the present findings in the advanced fiber-reinforced concrete composite field are anticipated to cover a variety of topic. The potential topics include, but are not restricted to structural applications of advanced fiber-reinforced concrete composites, fiber-bridging behaviors, multiple micro-cracks, strain-hardening behaviors, property characterization, nanofiber reinforced concrete composites, advanced fiber-reinforced cement-free composites, ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concretes, multifunctional fiber-reinforced concrete composites, and advanced fiber-reinforced concrete composites.