Evaluation of flexural toughness of polyurethane concrete incorporating various steel fiber length and content

Abstract

Polyurethane concrete has excellent mechanical properties, rapid solidification and durability, but brittle damage is easy to occur at room temperature. To solve the problem of insufficient bending toughness of polyurethane concrete, steel fibers were added into the traditional polyurethane concrete to prepare steel fiber polyurethane concrete in this paper. A total of 8 test beams with dimensions of 150 mm × 150 mm × 550 mm were made. The influence of steel fibers with different length-diameter ratios and volume ratios on the flexural strength of polyurethane concrete was studied through four points bending tests. The results show that under the same volume ratio and diameter, as the length of steel fiber increases from 30 mm to 60 mm, the peak load decreased by 8.6%, and the displacement corresponding to the peak load decreased by 41.1%. Under the same length-diameter ratio, the steel fiber volume ratio from 0.5% to 2.0%, the peak load increased by 49.1%, and the displacement corresponding to the peak load increased by 100.8%. The toughening degree, relative initial flexural toughness ratio and relative residual flexural toughness ratio were proposed, and the inconsistencies of calculation criteria for flexural toughness in steel fiber reinforced concrete (JG/T 472–2015) were optimized.