ABSTRACT
Research in steel fibre reinforced concrete has a history of more than 50 years (Romualdi & Batson 1963) and the concept has matured to the stage where it is finding increasing use in practice. Romualdi & Batson demonstrated that the tensile strength and crack resistance of concrete can be improved by providing suitably arranged, closely spaced, wire reinforcement. By adding fibres to a concrete mix the objective is to bridge discrete cracks providing for some control to the fracture process and increase the fracture energy.
