The comparison between the cracking behaviour of bending and tension for Strain Hardening Cement-based Composites (SHCC)

Author(s): P.D. Nieuwoudt, W.P. Boshoff
Paper category: Conference
Book title: Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting III (ICCRRR)
Editor(s): M.G. Alexander, H.-D. Beushausen, F. Dehn, P. Moyo
Print ISBN: 978-0-415-89952-9
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Pages: 515- 516
Total Pages: 2
Language: English

Abstract: 
Strain Hardening Cement Based Composite (SHCC) is a type of High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cement-based Composite (HPFRCC). SHCC contains randomly distributed short Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) fibres and exhibits a pseudo strain hardening or deflection hardening effect when subjected to uni-axial tensile loading or flexural loading respectively. Recent studies have been done to quantify the cracking behaviour of SHCC subjected to uni-axial tensile loading, but little work has been done to quantify the cracking behaviour subjected to flexural loading. This paper presents a comparison between the cracking behaviour of SHCC subjected to both uni-axial tensile loading and flexural loading to determine whether the cracking behaviour obtained in direct tension can be used to quantify the cracking behaviour of the tensile region of bending.

Online publication: 2014
Publication Type: abstract_only
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