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CHINA CIVIL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

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No . 2

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2009

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1. 7100382. 710072
100mm SHPB

20~100 s- 1
SHPB
139.05~240.15 s 65%
24%

100 mm SHPB
O347 TU528.572

1000-131X 2009 02-0024-08

Mechanical properties of carbon fiber reinforced concrete

under impact loading
Li Weimin1 Xu Jinyu1,2 Zhai Yi1 Li Qing1
1. Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710038, China;

2. Northwest Polytechnic University, Xi'an 710072, China

Abstract: Dynamic properties of concrete reinforced with various volumetric fractions of carbon fiber subjected to
high strain rate were studied, and the validity of the experiment was analyzed. Details of an experimental
investigation using 100 mm diameter split Hopkinson pressure bar SHPB apparatus were presented. The tests
reveal that the dynamic strength and the specific energy absorption of carbon fiber reinforced concrete (CFRC)
are strain rate dependent, the strain rate effect can be expressed by linear approximations, and the relationship
between the dynamic strength increment factor and the logarithm of average strain rate is approximately linear.
Carbon fiber is effective in strengthening and toughening the concrete and more prominent with the increase of its
volumetric fraction. The toughening effect gets more prominent with strain rate of 20 ~100 s -1, whereas the
strengthening effect decreases. During SHPB tests, CFRC specimens begin to fail at 139.05 ~240.15 s, nearly
constant strain rates are obtained over 65% of the test duration, and the average relative error of strain rate is
24%, which prove the credibility of the SHPB test results of CFRC.
Keywords: carbon fiber reinforced concrete CFRC 100-mm-diameter SHPB apparatus pulse shaping technique
high strain rate impact mechanical properties
E-mail: lwm_afeu0830@yahoo.com.cn

Carbon fiber reinforced concrete,

CFRC 1-2 3

BC07002

2007-10-12

Chung 6,7

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25

100 mm
Split Hopkinson pressure bar, SHPB

SHPB

S HP B

100 mm SHPB

1.1

2
Fig. 2 Comparison between original and shaped
incident pulse

100 mm SHPB 1

3
Fig. 3 Typical waveforms from pulse shaped
experiments with H62 brass pulse shapers
(a)

Fig. 1

(b) --

1 100 mm SHPB
Apparatus of 100-mm-diameter SHPB

8,9

H62
1 mm 20 mm

22 mm 25 mm 27 mm 30 mm

1~1.6 2
3

1.2

SHPB 4

4 SHPB
s=ls /cscs
Fig. 4 Stress wave propagation in SHPB tests on
concrete specimen (s=ls /cswhere cs represents wave
velocity in specimen)

s s s

st= Eitrt1+tt2A
2As

t
-
t
r
1- tt 2c
st= i
ls
st=

d
0

E c A As

ls i

r t 1 2

10

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2.3

CFRC SHPB
100mm SHPB

S HP B

0 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% CFRC

0.5 m 95 mm

50 mm

P.O 42.5R

SHPB

4 5 CFRC

5~10 mm 15% 10~20 mm 85%

20~100 s -1 CFRC

2.8

2.1

FDN

CFRC fc,d

1 2

s 7 I

C50

I=fc,d /fc,s

1
Table 1 Physical and mechanical properties of
carbon fiber

mm

3
kg/m

GPa

1760

200

fc,d fc,s CFRC

8 I

MPa
%
>3000

1.5

2
Table 2 Mix proportions of carbon fiber reinforced concrete
(kg/m3)

300

2.2

100

FDN

518.26 1368.13 144

VCF

0.1%

0.2% 0.3%

1.76

3.52

5.28

s
=-1.212+1.477 lg s

IV

CF

=0

IV

CF

=0.1%

IV

CF =0.2%

IV

CF

=-0.904+1.281 lg s
3

=-0.988+1.388 lg s

=0.3%

=-0.244+1.012 lg s

I V CF CFRC

11 Specific energy absorption,

CFRC
2

28 d
3

CFRC

9.7%~12.1%
CFRC
CFRC

Table 3

SEA CFRC
CFRC

SEA= AEc
Asls

t - t+ - t+ dt
0

T CFRC
1 9
7 9

3
Quasi-static mechanical properties of carbon
fiber reinforced concrete

VCF%

fc,sMPa

fMPa

fMPa

st

61.6

7.8

4.73

0.1

63.2

8.2

4.27

12

0.2

60.7

7.5

4.16

Bracc

0.3

57.7

7.8

4.18

13

Janach

14

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Table 4

VCF%

0.1

0.2

0.3

4 SHPB
Summary of SHPB tests on carbon fiber reinforced concrete specimens

ss-1
29.2

fc,dMPa
63.8

-3
10

p
5.77

39.9

65.9

51.0

78.1

73.4

93.1

max10-3
9.39

I
1.04

SEAJ/cm3
0.14

6.59

17.89

1.07

0.18

7.43

21.29

1.27

0.25

7.42

30.63

1.51

0.33

7.97

36.06

1.75

0.34

11.13

1.09

0.14

90.6

107.8

31.3

68.6

38.6

69.3

6.11

8.31

1.10

0.10

53.9

79.2

6.12

20.56

1.25

0.15

5.88

64.0

85.0

7.90

21.96

1.34

0.20

74.3

93.3

9.68

25.61

1.48

0.43

85.3

102.0

8.24

30.38

1.61

0.36

94.4

105.9

9.37

31.44

1.68

0.40

34.8

68.5

6.79

11.90

1.13

0.14

40.2

74.6

6.86

12.86

1.23

0.17

53.7

84.3

7.49

13.14

1.39

0.29

60.5

95.6

7.57

19.64

1.57

0.19

69.4

97.0

7.70

22.48

1.60

0.26

82.8

100.0

7.92

31.15

1.65

0.37

86.7

100.7

8.13

32.11

1.66

0.31

35.8

71.4

6.59

8.33

1.24

0.12

41.1

82.8

6.11

15.60

1.44

0.17

48.2

87.3

7.19

15.44

1.51

0.31

59.9

91.7

7.88

21.40

1.59

0.25

75.2

93.0

9.62

26.95

1.61

0.40

80.0

98.3

9.99

25.47

1.70

0.38

96.0

100.3

9.80

32.65

1.74

0.40

(a)VCF=0

(c)VCF=0.2%

Fig. 5

27

(b)VCF=0.1%

(d)VCF=0.3%

5 -
Stress-strain curves of concrete specimens reinforced with different volumetric fractions of carbon fiber

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2009

(a)VCF=0

(b)VCF=0.1%

(c)VCF=0.2%

(d)VCF=0.3%

Fig. 6

6
Failure forms of carbon fiber reinforced concrete specimens

7
Fig. 7 Dynamic compressive strength vs. average strain
rate for carbon fiber reinforced concrete specimens with
line-fitting to 0, 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3% CFRC specimens

8
Fig. 8 Semi-logarithmic plot of dynamic strength increase
factor vs. average strain rate for carbon fiber reinforced
concrete specimens with line-fitting to 0, 0.1%, 0.2% and
0.3% CFRC specimens

SHPB




0.1% 0.2% 0.3% CFRC
9
Fig. 9 Specific energy absorption vs. average strain rate for
carbon fiber reinforced concrete specimens with line-fitting
to 0, 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3% CFRC specimens

10
CFRC

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CFRC

32.3% 100 s -1

16.5%

10

S HP B

20~100 s
-1

0.3% CFRC 20 s

-1

(a)

Fig. 10

(b)

10
Comparison of dynamic properties between plain concrete and concrete reinforced with different volumetric
fractions of carbon fiber

(a)

(c) 0.2% CFRC

(b) 0.1% CFRC

(d) 0.3% CFRC

11
Fig. 11 Strain rate histories of concrete reinforced with different volumetric fractions of carbon fiber

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52%~81% 65%

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25%

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444.75~518.35 s
186.80~230.70 s

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