Hello Flagstaff! AZ ACI is pleased to announce that we will be holding regularly scheduled Chapter Meetings, and we wish to Welcome the Student Chapter at NAU as they begin to get engaged with ACI locally!
Please join us for this presentation by Jeffrey Ferris with Euclid Chemical Company. He will cover new developments in material technology and design guidelines that have expanded the application of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (FRC). Fibers are made with different materials and can provide different levels of crack control and tensile/flexural capacity for a concrete section. Some of the applications include slab-on-grade (residential, commercial and paving), topping slabs and shotcrete.
This presentation will review key aspects of ACI 544.4 R-18, "Guide to Design with Fiber-Reinforced Concrete" and the other ACI documents and test methods it references.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Jeffray Ferris graduated from Purdue University and began his career in synthetic fiber reinforced concrete in 1984. This marked the initial introduction of synthetic fibers into the concrete industry. At that time, ASTM test methods for determining fiber performance (for both synthetic fibers and steel fibers) did not exist, and the first ACI 544 committee on fiber-reinforced concrete had just recently been formed in 1982. Jeff has experienced all the developments that have led up to the current fiber technology and applications.
