Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC) is gaining attention as an effective way to improve the performance of concrete. Fibers are currently being specified in tunneling, bridge decks, pavements, loading docks, thin unbonded overlays, concrete pads, and concretes slabs. These applications of fiber reinforced concrete are becoming increasingly popular and are exhibiting excellent performance.
There are many types of fibers that can be used in concrete including steel fibers, glass fibers, synthetic fibers and natural fibers. The characteristics of the fiber reinforced concrete depend on the fiber material, amount, geometry, distribution, orientation, and densities of the fibers used. Fibers are added to fresh concrete during the batching and mixing process to allow them to be equally distributed throughout the concrete.
Fibers are often used in concrete to control plastic shrinkage cracking and drying shrinkage cracking. Some types of fibers can improve abrasion resistance, residual strength, toughness and shatter resistance of the concrete. They may also lower the permeability of concrete thus reducing the amount of bleed water.
Structural synthetic and steel fibers are high strength, high modulus fibers designed to structurally reinforce a concrete slab as an alternative to steel rebar. Steel fibers give the concrete increased strength and synthetic fibers give the concrete increased durability and toughness.
This list consists of tests that we perform on a regular basis. If a test is desired that is not listed below please call and inquire for further details.
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Time of Flow of Fiber-Reinforce Concrete Through Inverted Slump Cone
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Specification for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
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Preparing and Testing Specimens from Shotcrete Test Panels
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Evaluating Plastic Shrinkage Cracking of Restrained Fiber Reinforced Concrete (Using a Steel Form Insert)
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Flexural Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Using Beam With Third-Point
Loading) (Withdrawn 2006)
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Sampling Materials for Shotcrete
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Obtaining Average Residual-Strength of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
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Materials for Shotcrete
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Packaged, Pre-Blended, Combined Materials for Use in Wet or Dry Shotcrete Application
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Obtaining and Testing Drilled Cores of Shotcrete
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Flexural Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Using Beam With Third-Point Loading)
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