1st Edition
Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete A Practitioner’s Guide to SFRC Slabs
Introduction
1. Steel Fibre reinforced concrete: the basics
2. Relevant Material properties
3. Full scale tests and quasi full-scale tests
4. Overall safety
5. The material and structural ductility
6. Yield lines theory basics
7. Ground bearing slabs
8. The shrinkage question
9. Pile supported ground slabs
10. Raft slab foundations for buildings
11. Elevated suspended slabs
12. Fire resistance
13. Environmental benefits
14. Existing codes and design standards
15. The future and obstacles
16. Conclusions
Bibliography
Biography
Xavier Destrée is a consulting engineer and former R&D consultant to ARBED, a world-wide steel company. He is a member of numerous technical committees issuing SFRC standards, guidelines and reports in several countries, a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, and arguably the world’s leading authority on SFRC.
