Mikrobewehrter Ultrahochleistungsbeton

Micro-reinforced Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) - Structural behaviour

With intent to provide a ductile failure and to use UHPC to full capacity usually steel fibres are added during the mixing process. The impaired workability as well as random orientation and spreading of the fibres are beside the spots of corrosion resulting from near-surface fibres the main disadvantages of the use of steel fibres.
Within this paper a micro-reinforcement as replacement for steel-fibres is introduced with respect to the structural behaviour of the composite material. To outline the comparability in structural behaviour the results of the experimental investigations on micro-reinforced UHPC are constantly compared to the results of fibered UHPC. Additional investigations concerning the orientation of the micro-reinforcement show an influence on the structural failure. Beside the experimental tests nonlinear finite element simulations were performed. The simulations and the test results show substantial similarities in crack propagation, ultimate deformation and bearing capacity.