The huge quantity of concrete is consumed by the construction industry all over the world, probably second largest after water. In India, the conventional concrete is produced by using natural sand from riverbeds as fine aggregate. Dwindling sand resources poses the environmental problem and hence government restrictions on sand quarrying resulted in scarcity and significant increase in its cos...

The ceramic fiber business of Shinnikka Thermal Ceramics Corporation began in March 1984 when its Sakai Works (then Nippon Steel Chemical Sakai Works) started production of ceramic fibers after several years of preparatory arrangements. The continuous reheating furnace having all-ceramic fiber lining, high thermal efficiency and low thermal inertia that was adopted for the plate mill (put into ...

This paper deals with behavior and capacity of punching shear force for flat slabs produced from steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete (SFRSCC) by application nonlinear finite element method. Nonlinear finite element analysis on nine slab specimens was achieved by using ANSYS software. A general description of the finite element method, theoretical modeling of concrete and reinforceme...