Steigerung der Durchstanztragfähigkeit und Duktilität durch die Zugabe moderner Hochleistungsstahlfasern

Increase of the punching shear capacity and structural ductility achieved through utilisation of modern high-performance steel fibres. Since the introduction of normative regulations for the design of steel fibre reinforced concrete in Germany and Europe, the application is recently growing in concrete engineering. After crack formation has occurred in the concrete, macro fibres made of steel allow an effective transfer of tensile stresses across the crack, which proves to be particularly advantageous regarding punching shear failure. While there are numerous test results available for the punching shear capacity of steel fibre reinforced concrete slabs with slab thicknesses of up to 150 mm, there is an almost complete lack of tests on practically relevant slab thicknesses. In addition, advances in the performance of modern steel fibres promise improved load-bearing and deformation behaviour of the steel fibre concrete. Eight punching shear tests were carried out on flat slab specimens with different slab thicknesses to investigate the punching shear behaviour of steel fibre reinforced flat slabs with practically relevant slab thicknesses. Further investigated influencing parameters were the steel fibre type and in particular the steel fibre content. This article provides an overview of the tests carried out and discusses the results obtained. Based on a comparison of the experimentally obtained failure loads with the calculated punching shear capacities according to the DAfStb-Guideline “Steel fibre reinforced concrete” of the German Committee for Structural Concrete (DAfStb) as well as according to fib Model Code 2010, an evaluation of the design approaches will be provided.