Title: Prediction of the Modulus of Rupture of Fiber Reinforced Portland Cement Mortar and Concrete

Author(s): Ernest L. Buckley and Noel J. Everard

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 44

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 163-176

Keywords: composite materials; concretes; cracking (fracturing); fiber reinforced concretes; fibers; flexural strength; glass fibers; mortars (material); poisson ratio; portland cement; research; stiffness; tensile strength

DOI: 10.14359/17892

Date: 1/1/1974

Abstract:
Small, short, steel wire fiber has been used with some success and has shown promising potentioal as reinforcement for Portland cement concrete and mortar. . .The elastic composite action and the pseudo-plastic effects produced by the fiber reinforcement are accounted for.