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Micro-Reinforced Cementitious Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

Nemkumar Banthia
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Quebec, G1K 7P4 Canada
Jiakang Sheng
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Quebec, G1K 7P4 Canada
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Abstract

Reinforcement of cements with very fine fibers of carbon and steel in mono- and hybrid-forms has been investigated. While both carbon and steel fibers led to considerable improvements in strength and toughness, on a comparative basis, carbon fibers bring about a better improvement in the toughness or energy absorption, and the steel fibers impart higher tensile strengths to the base cement matrices. In the hybrid-fiber systems, the improvements lie somewhere in between those of the equivalent mono-fiber systems.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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