Steel fibre reinforced ferrocement slabs under uniformly distributed load with two opposite edges fixed

This article presents the behaviour of ferrocement slabs reinforced with low strength steel fibres. The ferrocement slab were fabricated with dimensions of 1.0x0.84x0.035m and provided chicken mesh in one and two layers along with the discrete fibres in the proportion of 0.75, 1.0 and 1.50% by volume of specimen. Total 16 slabs were cast and tested in the laboratory under uniformly distributed load with two opposite edges fixed and other two edges were simply supported. First crack and ultimate load capacity of the slabs were noticed for each slab. The results revealed that 1% of fibres volume is effective to take the more loads when compared to other dosages of fibres. The crack width was decreased for slabs wchich consists of steel fibres when compared with slabs without steel fibbers. The reserved factor (failure load/cracking load) for the slabs varied form 1.6 to 2.6.