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Influence of mineral additions on flexural fatigue performance of steel fibre reinforced concrete

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An experimental investigation is conducted to study the flexural fatigue performance of steel fibre reinforced concrete containing fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), metakaolin (MK) and limestone powder (LP) as mineral additions in terms of theoretical fatigue lives. Seven mix combinations are prepared by replacing 30 % of cement by weight with FA, SF, MK and LP in different proportions to form binary and ternary blend systems. Rectangular corrugated steel fibres at 1.0 % volume fraction are incorporated in all seven mix combinations. Beam specimens are tested at four fatigue stress levels ranging from 0.90 to 0.75. The Weibull distribution is employed to incorporate the failure probabilities into the fatigue life data of all mix combinations. The theoretical fatigue lives of all mix combinations are calculated using single-logarithm fatigue equation. The theoretical fatigue lives of concretes containing mineral additions get enhanced in different extent as compared to control concrete. The concrete containing SF and FA in the amount of 10 and 20 % by weight of binder respectively has shown the best flexural fatigue performance, which is much better than that of the control concrete.

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Acknowledgments

The financial assistance in the form of fellowship to the first author from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India is appreciatively acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge the support of the staff of Structures Testing Laboratory at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India during the experimentation work reported in the paper.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, 147 004, India

    Gurbir Kaur

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 144 011, India

    S. P. Singh

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

    S. K. Kaushik

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Kaur, G., Singh, S.P. & Kaushik, S.K. Influence of mineral additions on flexural fatigue performance of steel fibre reinforced concrete. Mater Struct 49, 4101–4111 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-015-0775-3

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