Uniaxial Tensile Test and Numerical Simulation of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Abstract

According to the reinforcement principle of hybrid fiber, steel fiber and PVA fiber were used to prepare hybrid fiber reinforced concrete (HyFRC) with compression strength of 120 MPa (SPHFC120). The tensile properties of SPHFC120 were studied by uniaxial tensile test, and the uniaxial tensile constitutive equation was established according to the stress-strain curve. An efficient and applicable three-dimensional mesoscale model to simulate HyFRC was developed. It consists of two components involving concrete matrix and fibers, and the bond between concrete matrix and fibers was considered indirectly by defining the fiber constitutive model. The model was validated with uniaxial tensile test. Then parametric studies were conducted to investigate the effect of fibers content on the tensile performance of HyFRC. The results show that PVA fibers obviously improve the tensile strength, peak tensile strain and tensile toughness of steel fiber reinforced concrete.