Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete

A Practitioner’s Guide to SFRC Slabs

Xavier Destrée (Consulting Engineer, Belgium)

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CRC Press
25 April 2025

Structural engineering; Building construction & materials

Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) for structures dates back to 1925, yet it remains largely unknown to many engineers and contractors. Essential information is often buried in codes, reports, and standards. This book presents the essential information required by engineers to utilize SFRC effectively, achieving superior results across a range of applications.

The focus is on its most common use in flat, horizontal cast in situ applications, such as ground-bearing slabs, ground-suspended slabs, suspended elevated slabs, and raft slab foundations for buildings, which present more opportunities than three-dimensional structures. Prefabrication and paving are discussed where they intersect with these main applications. Material and structural testing are addressed to guide the design for these typical applications, with attention also given to shrinkage, cracking, fire resistance of slabs and walls, and environmental benefits, alongside future opportunities and challenges.

This unique book provides simple practical guidance for designing and placing SFRC It is especially helpful for design-and-build contractors and professional engineers It offers simple tools and methods to launch a project

By: Xavier Destrée (Consulting Engineer Belgium)
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9781032036410
ISBN 10: 1032036419
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 25 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction 1. Steel Fibre reinforced concrete: the basics 2. Relevant Material properties 3. Full scale tests and quasi full-scale tests 4. Overall safety 5. The material and structural ductility 6. Yield lines theory basics 7. Ground bearing slabs 8. The shrinkage question 9. Pile supported ground slabs 10. Raft slab foundations for buildings 11. Elevated suspended slabs 12. Fire resistance 13. Environmental benefits 14. Existing codes and design standards 15. The future and obstacles 16. Conclusions Bibliography

Xavier Destrée is a consulting engineer and former R&D consultant to ARBED, a world-wide steel company. He is a member of numerous technical committees issuing SFRC standards, guidelines and reports in several countries, a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, and arguably the world’s leading authority on SFRC.