The characteristics of ultra-high performance concrete and cracking behavior of reinforced concrete tensile specimens

Abstract

The tensile behavior of concrete depends on some factors such as member dimensions, reinforcement ratio, diameter of rebar, strength and elasticity modulus of material. In this research the experimental method is used to examine the characteristics and the behavior of ultra-high performance concrete on the tensile behavior of concrete members reinforced by steel rebar. The results show that increasing the rebar cover on diameter rebar ratio (C/d) increases the initial stiffening before the cracking stage in concrete. Also, by increasing of reinforcement ratio the cracking space decreased.

Keywords

• ultra-high performance concrete
• tensile strength
• elastic modulus
• tensile member