Design of Fiber-Reinforced DSP Mixes for Minimum Brittleness

The limitations of the traditional material design approach in driving properties to extreme values and handling multiple design criteria and variables can be overcome by applying the optimization approach. Fiber-reinforced cement based composites based on strong aggregates and exhibiting approximately bilinear fiber pullout behavior are optimized in the present study for a given compressive strength f′c with a view to maximizing their uniaxial...