Experimental Study on Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Steel fibers can be used to reinforce concrete. Steel fibers are generally classified depending on their manufacturing method. The addition of steel fibers to concrete necessitate an alteration to the mix design to compensate for the loss of workability due to the extra paste required for coating the surface of the added steel fibers. While many technical and economic advantages are benefited from using SFRC, drawbacks can also be found. They are however not likely to cause major problems. It was thought that steel fibers will have negative implications in concrete practice (i.e. transporting, surfacing, finishing etc), but experience has shown that the influence of steel fibers on these practical aspects is negligible. This research is based on investigating the effect of steel fibers on strength parameters of concrete for M-40 grade using fibers like straight fiber. This study is to study the compressive strength, Split tensile strength, flexural strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) containing fibers of 0%, 0.25%, 0.50% and 0.75%, 1%, 1.25% by volume of cement.