Algorithm for Design of Steel Fiber Concrete Structures

It is shown that the widespread use of structures made from such building composites as steel fiber concrete (SFC) is constrained due to the lack in regulatory documents of the necessary information on the choice of initial data, possible options for fiber reinforcement and principles of their rational use, features of their calculation and design, as well as the data with SFC properties in accordance with the operational requirements for such structures. During a long period of time since the idea of concrete reinforcement with steel fiber (“iron hair”) emerged at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century, numerous studies have been performed by Russian and foreign scientists, which became the basis for the further development and improvement of building structures with fiber reinforcement. The algorithm for the design of SFC-based structures has been presented, including the peculiarities of the composite nature of the material.