Fracture and impact properties of short discrete jute fibre-reinforced cementitious composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-47

  Zhou, Xiangming ^a   Ghaffar, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Dong, Wei ^a   Oladiran, Olayinka ^a   Fan, Mizi ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre reinforced concrete; Fracture toughness; Impact resistance; Jute fibre; Natural fibre; Two parameter fracture model

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETES; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; IMPACT RESISTANCE; JUTE FIBERS; MORTAR; NATURAL FIBERS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; CONCRETE BEAM; CRACK PATTERNS; CRITICAL STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATES; CRITICAL STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; DUCTILE FAILURES; EN STANDARDS; FIBRE REINFORCED; FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE; FIBRE-REINFORCED CONCRETES; FRACTURE MODEL; FRACTURE PROPERTY; IMPACT ENERGY; IMPACT FAILURES; IMPACT PROPERTY; IMPACT TEST; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; PULL-OUT; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPLITTING TENSILE STRENGTH; TOTAL ENERGY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84874507952     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.01.029     Document Type: Article

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