Flexural Toughness of Basalt Fiber Bar Polymer Concrete
CUI Sheng'ai
XU Lilin
RAO Jiarui
CAO Zhuoying
Abstract：The impact of the fiber reinforcement index(IR)of basalt fiber bars(BFB)on the toughness index T2(n-1)(n)of basalt fiber bar polymer concrete(BFB-PC)was investigated.The relationship between T2(n-1)(n)and crack morphology was discussed by fractal theory.A calculation model of flexural toughness was established.The results indicate that,compared to PC without BFB,when IR is 90.0,BFB has the best toughening effect on BFB-PC,and the flexural toughness of BFB-PC is increased by 8.39 times.The toughening thresholds of BFB are IR=37.5 and IR=90.0.When the IR is the same,T2(n-1)(n)of BFB-PC with the polymer-cement ratio of 0.06 is higher than that of concrete without polymer.The crack morphology becomes more complicated with the increases of IR,and T2(n-1)(n)has a quadratic function relationship with the fractal dimension of the crack.The model accurately expresses the toughening effect of BFB on PC beams,and the relative error between the experimental and theoretical values is less than 15.00％.
Keywords：polymer concretebasalt fiber barfiber reinforcement indextoughness indexfractal dimension
Publication Date：2024-02-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 99-105 )