TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatigue life and self-induced volumetric changes of CARDIFRC
AU - Nicolaides, Demetrios
AU - Kanellopoulos, A.
AU - Karihaloo, Bhushan Lal
PY - 2010/9/1
Y1 - 2010/9/1
N2 - A class of ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced cementitious composites (UHPFRCC) has been developed at Cardiff university and registered under the trade name CARDIFRC. The method of its production and its mechanical and fracture properties were reported previously in a series of papers in Magazine of Concrete Research. Here the results of recent fatigue and shrinkage tests on this material are reported. As with the mechanical and fracture properties, it is shown that an even and uniform distribution of fibres throughout the bulk of the material is crucial to its superior fatigue performance and to the reduction in the shrinkage strains.
AB - A class of ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced cementitious composites (UHPFRCC) has been developed at Cardiff university and registered under the trade name CARDIFRC. The method of its production and its mechanical and fracture properties were reported previously in a series of papers in Magazine of Concrete Research. Here the results of recent fatigue and shrinkage tests on this material are reported. As with the mechanical and fracture properties, it is shown that an even and uniform distribution of fibres throughout the bulk of the material is crucial to its superior fatigue performance and to the reduction in the shrinkage strains.
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U2 - 10.1680/macr.9.00149
DO - 10.1680/macr.9.00149
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956465783
SN - 0024-9831
VL - 62
SP - 679
EP - 683
JO - Magazine of Concrete Research
JF - Magazine of Concrete Research
IS - 9
ER -