Simply Supported Steel Fiber Reinforced Ferrocement Slabs

Research Article
Venkata Ramana N
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0809.0884
Subject: 
Engineering
KeyWords: 
Chicken mesh, Four edges simply supported, Ferrocement slabs, Low strength steel fibers, Reserved factor, Uniformly distributed load.
Abstract: 

This article presents the behavior of ferrocement slabs reinforced with low strength steel fibers. The ferrocement slab were fabricated with dimensions of 1.0x0.84x0.035m and provided chicken mesh in one and two layers along with the discrete fibers in the proportion of 0, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0 and 1.50% by volume of specimen. Total 20 slabs were cast and tested in the laboratory under uniformly distributed load with all edges simply supported. First crack and ultimate load capacity of the slabs were noticed for each slab. The results revealed that 1% of fibers volume is effective to take the more loads when compared to other dosages of fibers. The crack width was decreased for slabs which consist of steel fibers when compared with slabs without steel fibbers. The reserved factor (failure load/ cracking load) for the slabs varied from 1.75 to 2.64.