Overview of “Recommendations for Design and Construction of High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composite with Multiple Fine Cracks” published by JSCE

Abstract

SUMMARY High performance fiber reinforced cement composite with multiple fine cracks is a cement-based material on which worldwide active research has been conducted and particular attention has been focused in recent years. The Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) published the recommendations for design and construction of this material in March 2007, which is the first-released recommendations in the world. This material shows strain-hardening tensile stress-strain behavior like steel and has a capability of controlling the width of crack within a permissible range because of the formation of multiple fine cracks under the tensile stress condition. Appropriate use of these unique characteristics can work out a structural component excellent in both durability and mechanical performance. This paper introduces the JSCE recommendations for design and construction of high performance fiber reinforced cement composite with multiple fine cracks.