Experimental Analysis of Timber-Concrete Composite Behaviour with Synthetic Fibres
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol.2423: 5th International Conference "Innovative Materials, Structures and Technologies" (IMST 2022) 2023
Karīna Buka-Vaivade, Dmitrijs Serdjuks, Dita Žviriņa, Leonīds Pakrastiņš

With the growing importance of the principles of sustainable construction, the use of load-bearing timber-concrete composite structures is becoming increasingly popular. Timberconcrete composite offers wider possibilities for the use of timber in construction, especially for large-span structures. The most significant benefit from combining these materials can be obtained by providing a rigid connection between the timber and concrete layers, which can be obtained by the adhesive timber-to-concrete connection produced by the proposed stone chips method. A sustainable solution involves the abandonment of steel longitudinal reinforcement. The use of such a solution in practice is often associated with fears of a fragile collapse. Therefore, the issue of how to increase the safety factor of the proposed material is topical now. The experimental investigation is made to determine the effect of synthetic fibre use on timber-concrete composite behaviour by testing a series of timber-concrete composite specimens with and without fibres in the concrete layer. The obtained results show that adding 0.5 % of synthetic macro fibres allows to abandon the use of longitudinal steel reinforcement and prevents the formation of large cracks in concrete and the disintegration of the concrete layer in case of collapse.


Keywords
timber-concrete composite, fibre reinforced concrete
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/2423/1/012014
Hyperlink
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2423/1/012014/pdf

Buka-Vaivade, K., Serdjuks, D., Žviriņa, D., Pakrastiņš, L. Experimental Analysis of Timber-Concrete Composite Behaviour with Synthetic Fibres. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023, Vol. 2423, Article number 012014. ISSN 1742-6588. e-ISSN 1742-6596. Available from: doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2423/1/012014

Publication language
English (en)
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