Results of an experimental study on flexural behaviour of steel-reinforced portal frames made of ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite and concrete under static transverse bending are reported in this paper. A total of six half-scale frames were cast and tested. It was observed that the frames partially or fully made of ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite have about 21–37% higher load-carrying capacity than ordinary concrete frames. Moreover, frames completely made of ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite are shown to have 1·5–2 times more ductility than the control frame. The failure modes of ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite frames were very ductile with multiple microcracks and the general pattern was flexural tension. In addition to the frame specimens, ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite tensile coupons, compressive cylinders and concrete cubes were also cast and evaluated.
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Shamsher Bahadur Singh, PhD, PE;
Shamsher Bahadur Singh, PhD, PE
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Associate Professor and Head, Civil Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, India
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Madappa V. R. Sivasubramanian, ME
Madappa V. R. Sivasubramanian, ME
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Senior Research Fellow DST-project and PhD student, Civil Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, India
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
February 22 2011
Accepted:
July 18 2011
Online ISSN: 1747-6518
Print ISSN: 1747-650X
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2013
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Construction Materials (2013) 166 (1): 34–44.
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Received:
February 22 2011
Accepted:
July 18 2011
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Singh SB, Sivasubramanian MVR (2013), "Performance of ductile fibre-reinforced cementitious composite concrete frames under flexural loading". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Construction Materials, Vol. 166 No. 1 pp. 34–44, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/coma.11.00017
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