Aplicando concreto de elevada resistência reforçado com fibras de aço na supressão do reforço convencional de vigas em concreto armado de resistência normal

Abstract

High strength steel fiber reinforced concrete (HS-SFRC) used as suppression of conventional reinforcement normal strength reinforced concrete beams (NS-RC) has been in the current experimental research. Five 150x300x2700 mm³ size beams were prepared and submitted to four point bending test until failure. The beam reference have been produced without steel fibers (fc = 30.0 MPa), with longitudinal reinforcement ratio (ρl,t = 0.91%), and transverse reinforcement (ρw = 0.11%), representative of practice applications. Four other HS-SFRC beams were produced with fc = 60.0 MPa, ρl,t = 0.39% (≈ 60.0% suppression relative to reference beam), ρw = 0.0 % (100.0% suppression) and fiber consume (Cf) alternating in 45,0,60,0, 75,0 and 90,0 kg/m³. The behavior beams was analyzed from load-displacement and moment-curvature relations. The viability to design HS-SFRC beams with suppression conventional reinforcements was verified based on these results and material characterization tests, exposing equivalent mechanical behavior and some cases higher that of NS-RC beams.