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Stress-Strain Behavior of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Cylinders Spirally Confined with Steel Bars

The compressive strength of concrete according to certain codes can be based on the compressive strength of unconfined plain standard concrete cylinders tests at the age of 28 days. In this paper, the standard concrete cylinders were spirally confined with steel bars and with/without hooked-end steel fibers. The influence of the use of hooked-end steel fiber in spirally confined concrete with various pitches was investigated. It can be seen that the use of hooked-end steel fiber contributes significantly in improving both compressive strength and ductility of concrete. The compressive strength and ductility of steel fibered concrete also increase with the reduction of the spiral’s pitch.

Development of Mix Design Method in Efforts to Increase Concrete Performance Using Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC)

Earthquake disaster can cause infrastructure damage. Prevention of human casualties from disasters should do. Prevention efforts can do through improving the mechanical performance of building materials. To achieve high-performance concrete (HPC), usually used Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). However, the most widely circulating cement types today are Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC) or Portland Composite Cement (PCC). Therefore, the proportion of materials used in the HPC mix design needs to adjust to achieve the expected performance. This study aims to develop a concrete mix design method using PPC to fulfil the criteria of HPC. The study refers to the code/regulation of concrete mixtures that use OPC based on the results of laboratory testing. This research uses PPC material, gravel from Malang area, Lumajang sand, water, silica fume and superplasticizer of a polycarboxylate copolymer. The analyzed information includes the investigation results of aggregate properties, concrete mixed composition, water-binder ratio variation, specimen dimension, compressive strength and elasticity modulus of the specimen. The test results show that the concrete compressive strength achieves value between 25 MPa to 55 MPa. The mix design method that has developed can simplify the process of concrete mix design using PPC to achieve the certain desired performance of concrete.

Finite element modeling of bending failure at HPFRC plates using 2-dimensional isoparametric element

This paper presents finite element modeling of the bending failure on High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) plate subjected to monotonic loading. Plate analysis is commonly used approach to plate bending theory. The results are sometimes less in accordance with laboratory tests. The aim of this study is to analyze the behavior of bending until failure which occurred at HPFRC plate, and load-displacement relation caused by variations of plate depth. Analysis carried out by 2-D isoparametric finite element method, with the approach of plane strain condition. The analysis was done by decreasing the stiffness of plate elements layer gradually in accordance with the development of maximum stress in the element due to workload. The rigidity of plate elements layer will be close to zero when maximum stress reaches a maximum tensile strength of HPFRC. Validation testing program conducted on plate specimen with a span length of 600 mm, width 300 mm and thickness variation of 40 mm, 50 mm and 60 mm. HP...