Fibre concrete

Fibre concrete is an extension of the artificial building material concrete. Fibres are added to the concrete during production in order to improve the hardening properties and thus also the material properties such as tensile, compressive and shear strength as well as fracture and cracking behaviour. This means that, unlike concrete, fibre-reinforced concrete can also take on tensile forces in an uncracked state. This leads to the possibility of rendering a structure statically load-bearing. There are countless types and shapes of fibres: steel fibres, plastic fibres, glass fibres, straight fibres, hook fibres, corrugated fibres, end-crimped fibres, end-squeezed fibres....

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