PERFORMING NON-DESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATIONS ON SLABS MADE OF STEEL FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE

Abstract

Steel fiber reinforced concrete has been utilized as a construction material in the
field of civil engineering on a regular basis for a prolonged period of time. Due to the fact
that it possesses the appropriate qualities, steel fiber reinforced concrete is also used in the
construction of certain protective structures in the field of military engineering. During the
course of the past several years, non-destructive testing has emerged as the most prominent
area of interest in the field of building diagnostics. Due to the fact that there is a complete
absence of recognized methods and procedures that deal with the testing of fiber-reinforced
concrete, numerous experiments have been conducted using conventional non-destructive
methods with the intention of determining the applicability of these approaches to the testing
of structural elements that are built from fiber-reinforced concrete. The article provides a
description of an experiment in which the compression strengths of a material are compared
using a destructive approach and a non-destructive method (hardness, ultrasonography).