CARDIFRC® -: Development and mechanical properties.: Part III:: Uniaxial tensile response and other mechanical properties

Part III of this three-part paper about CARDIFRC (R), a class of high performance short steel fibre-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs), deals,with the measurement of the tensile response of CARDIFRC (R) mixes on a specially developed specimen, geometry and loading arrangement. It also compares the measured mechanical properties (Young modulus, E, compressive strength, f(c), tensile strength, f(t), specific fracture energy, G(F)) with the theoretically predicted values using micromechanical relations.