Experimental Study on Self

Compacting Steel Fiber

Reinforced Rubberized Concrete
Deep Beams

Guided by
Dr. Praveen Nagarajan
Presented by
Mogadala Suresh
M150117CE
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Deep Beam
Beams

having a depth comparable to the span

length can be classified as deep beams.
Deep beams are often used as transfer girders
in buildings, cap beams in bridge bents, pile
caps in foundations, and other heavily loaded
structural members.

Deep Beam

By

IS 456

Overall
Depth
(D)

Effective span
(L)

L/D < 2
Beam

For a Simply supported

L/D < 2.5 For a Continuous Beam

Deep Beam

Strain Distribution is non-linear across the cross

section

Rubber Aggregate
For

improving
the
toughness,
fatigue
performance and impact resistance of concrete,
addition of high-strain-capacity materials is a
suitable choice. Currently, a more popular
approach is using rubber from discarded tyres to
replace a part of concrete aggregate.
Discarded vehicle tyres are one of the important
solid waste challenges needing more useful
applications than just becoming a material for
land filling.
This has additional advantage of saving natural
resources.
The reuse of this material in concrete could have
both environmental advantages and at the same
time ensure economic viability.

Rubber Aggregate
Increasing

the amount of rubber decreases the

compressive strength, tensile strength and
elastic modulus of concrete while significantly
improving its energy-absorption characteristics.
When the cracks encountered the rubber
particles, the rubber absorbed the cracking
stresses.

Steel Fiber Reinforced Rubberized Concrete

(SFRRC)
The

main disadvantages of the rubberised concrete

such as decrease in the compressive strength,
tensile strength and elastic modulus of concrete can
be tackled with the use of steel fibres.
The role of fibres is to arrest advancing of crack by
bridging action at the cracks, thus delaying their
propagation across the matrix and creating a slow
crack propagation stage.

Self Compacting Concrete

Self

compacting concrete (SCC) is considered as

an advanced construction material thanks to its
high level of workability and good cohesiveness.
These properties make it spread easily into place
and fill the formwork without any vibrators.
Many benefits are there, such as significant
reduction in construction time, innovation in
architectural features as well as improvement in
product quality and working environment.
That is the reason why SCC is more and more
widely in use in todays construction market.

This

project deals with self

compacting fibre reinforced
rubberized concrete simply
supported deep beam.

Literature
Review
Literature
Review
Author

Journal title

Inference

Gideon M.Siringi
Ali abolmaali and
Pranesh
B.Aswath
(2013)

Properties of
concrete with
crumb rubber
replacing Fine
aggregates(sand)

Mohamed K.
Ismail and
Assem A. A.
Hassan
(2016)

Performance of
full-scale self
consolidating
rubberized
concrete beams in
flexure

15% FA can be replaced with crumb rubber

without affecting the compressive strength
of concrete.
By using silica fume, the crumb rubber
improved the compressive strength by 5%
at 7 days and 9% at 28 days.
Addition of crumb rubber Lowered the
modulus of rupture by average of 12%
In this investigation, it was possible to
develop SCRC with a maximum CR
percentage of 40%. This percentage could
be increased to 50% with VRC. However, the
10% increase of CR gave VRC the advantage
over SCRC in terms of reducing self-weight
while it had a limited advantage in terms of
the overall structural behavior of the tested
beams.
Using up to 10% CR can improve the beams
deformation
capacity,
ductility,
and
toughness without affecting the ultimate
flexural load. However, 10 to 20% CR
replacement may continue to improve the
beams deformation capacity, ductility, and
toughness but with a slight reduction in the

Author

Journal title

Inference

Topcu I.B (1995)

The properties of
rubberized concretes

Camille &
George (2013)

Utilization of recycled
crumb rubber as fine
aggregates in concrete
mix design

M.C.Nataraja,
N.Dhang
and A.P Gupta
(1999)

Stress-strain curves for

steel fibre reinforced
concrete under
compression

Kishor
S. Sable et al.
(2012)

Effect of Different Type

of Steel Fibre and
Aspect Ratio on
Mechanical Properties
of Self Compacted
Concrete

50% & 64% reduction in compressive

and tensile strength when FA replaced.
80% & 74% reduction in compressive
and tensile strength when CA replaced.
Used rubber crumbs of size < 2.5mm
Not much decrease in compressive
strength up to 15% replacement of FA.
8% reduction in density at 15%
replacement.
Enhances ductility, insulation, damping
properties.
Addition of crimped steel fibers to
concrete increases the toughness.
Increased the strain corresponding to
peak stress
Work on hook end, crimped, straight
steel fiber(1.5%)
28 day compressive strength for
hooked-43.96N/mm2 , straight
36.62N/mm2 , crimped 42.20 N/mm2
Split tensile strength for hooked-6.85
N/mm2, straight - 4.63 N/mm2, crimped
4.93 N/mm2
Flexural strength for hooked5.97N/mm2, straight 5.18N/mm2,
crimped 5.63N/mm2

author

Journal title

Inference

Yeonho park
Ali albomaali
Mohammad
mohammadagha (2014)

Flexural characteristic
of rubberized hybrid
concrete reinforced
with steel and

synthetic fibres

Main contributor to increase the

ductility is the fibre surface
shape.
HYFRC with 0.33% of steel fibers,
0.33% of polypropylene fibers
and 3% crumb rubber showed
higher peak loads and toughness
than other mixes.
Suggested that FA can be
replaced up to 5% in HYFRC
without a reduction in the
flexural strength

Comments on Literature
survey
Several

works are available on rubberized

concrete.
Several studies are available on simply
supported deep beam.
Limited number of studies are done on Deep
beam with SFRRC.
Limited studies are available on self
compacting steel fibre reinforced rubberised
concrete.

Need for study

Very

Few studies are available on

deep beams with SFRRC.

Objective
To

check the improved properties

of Deep beams while using self
compacting steel fibre reinforced
rubberized concrete and to find
the optimum combination of
rubber and steel fibre percentage.

Scope

Methodology
Literature Survey
Numerical study on deep
beam by using ANSYS
Experimental study on deep
beam

Comparison of numerical and

experimental results
Determination of optimum
content of steel fibre and
rubber aggregates

Work done so far

Literature

survey
Mix design

Schedule of work
2016
Aug
Literature
review
Study of
ansys
Material
collection
Numerical
Analysis
Experiment
al
Analysis
Computatio
nal work
Thesis

Sep

Oct

2017
Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

April

may

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