Experimental Study on the Uniaxial Compression Curves of Green High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites (GHPFRCC)

Abstract:

Green high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites (GHPFRCC) is the optimized mix proportion of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) with high volume of fly ash and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber. To study the compressive performance, the prism stress-strain relationship of GHPFRCC is the focus in this study. There are sixteen groups of GHPFRCC specimens with the size 40mm×40mm×160mm. The compressive stress-strain curves were obtained based on the uniaxial compression tests. Experimental results show that the uniaxial compression stress-strain curve belongs to the skewed unimodal curve. The peak strain can steadily reach more than 0.005, and it has put up a great plastic deformation capacity and post-peak ductility. It has still reserved some residual strength even when the strain is up to a bigger value. The research achievements can promote the application of GHPFRCC in the practical engineering.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 893)
• Pages: 201-204
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.893.201
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Xiu Ling Li*, Juan Wang
• Keywords: Green High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites (GHPFRCC), Plastic Deformation Ability, Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Fiber, Stress-Strain Curve, Uniaxial Compression

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