TY  - JOUR
T1  - Shear Behavior of Reactive Powder Concrete Beams Improvement with Steel Fibers
AU - Saeed Atea, Rafid AU - Matlab Mezher, Thaer AU - Mahmood Amer, Hana 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 14
IS  - 15
SP  - 5297
EP  - 5303
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2019.5297.5303
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.5297.5303
KW  - Reactive powder
KW  -steel fibers
KW  -cracking and load-deflection
KW  -measurements
KW  -maximum crack width
KW  -experimental
AB  - Extensive research is going on now a days on the structural performance with steel fibers along silica
fume as an extension of the recent advances in concrete technology. This research presents a study in this
direction to investigate the shear behavior as well as determining the cracking and ultimate shear capacities of
with steel fibers and silica fume beams. In the this study consist three simply supports beams and an additional
with steel fibers along silica fume. Measurements were recorded for the cracking load, the ultimate shear load,
midspan deflection, maximum crack width, concrete strains at important locations and pattern of failure. The
variables considered in this experimental program was the steel fibers Volumetric ratio V<sub>f</sub>. It was establish that 
the rise of steel fibers (V<sub>f</sub>) from (1-2%) improved the diagonal cracking load (Pcr) from 22-63% and growing 
ultimate shear load (Pu) from 51.21-180.46% correspondingly as associated to nonfibrous beams.
ER  -