Abstract:
Adding steel fiber (SF) into rubber concrete can improve the strength reduction caused by the incorporation of rubber particles, and further increase the ductility. Ten groups of SF-rubber/concrete under uniaxial compression were conducted in order to study the compressive properties. The crumb rubber particles were incorporated at different percentages of 0%, 10% and 20% by volume substation of sand, and SF with volume fraction of 0vol%, 0.5vol%, 1.0vol%, and 1.5vol% were added to the concrete mixture. The results show that the bridging action of SF and its positive synergy with rubber particles in SF-rubber/concrete can improve the compressive behavior of concrete. The failure process of SF-rubber/concrete specimens is mild and slow, and the failure mode is obviously ductile. After adding SF, the compressive strength and elastic modulus of the SF-rubber/concrete increase obviously, and the strains at the peak stress and the post-peak ductility increase. With the increase of rubber particles, the strain at the peak stress and the post-peak ductility of SF-rubber/concrete further increase. But the compressive strength and elastic modulus of SF-rubber/concrete are reduced by adding rubber particles. Based on the test data and the literature of stress-strain curve expression, a more suitable analytical model was proposed to generate the stress-strain curve of SF-rubber/concrete, which can be applied in the analysis and design of SF-rubber/concrete structural members.