Research on Strength of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete at Low Fiber Volume Fraction Based on Binary Variance Analysis

Abstract

Based on the strength tests, including compressive strength, split tensile strength, shear strength , of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) with different concrete strength grades (C20~C50) at low fiber volume fraction (0~0.7%), the influences of concrete strength grades and steel fiber volume on concrete strengths were studied, and the effect significance levels of the two factors was analyzed through the binary variance analysis. The results show that when the concrete strength grades are amongst C20 ~ C50 and steel fiber volume rates lie in the range 0~0.7%,the strengths of SFRC rises as concrete strength grade and steel fiber volume ratio increase ; the influence of concrete grade is more significant than that of steel fiber volume ratio on compressive strength and split tensile strength of SFRC; the influence of steel fiber volume fraction is less significant than that of concrete strength grades on shear strength of SFRC.