French Standards for Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC)

Multiscale perspectives for advancing sustainability in fiber reinforced ultra-high performance concrete

“…Efforts have been made by China, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland to standardize UHPC, aiming to facilitate its widespread adoption. France took a significant step in 2016 by announcing its inaugural UHPC standard 214 .…”

Bioreceptivity of living walls: Interactions between building materials and substrates, and effect on plant growth

“…-"C25 Concrete", with CEM II A 32.5 cement (water cement w/c ratio of 0.6); C25 is a widespread ordinary building concrete, but with a high pH that can be detrimental to plant growth -"Low-pH Concrete" with a sulfoaluminous clinker (Andac et al, 1995;Desbois et al, 2010) -"UHPC Concrete", an Ultra-High-Performance Concrete of class C150 (Toutlemonde et al 2018;Resplendino, 2014). The material was developed in CEMEX laboratory from formulae already tested in the past.…”

Numerical investigation of non-shear-reinforced UHPC hybrid flat slabs subject to punching shear

“…UHPC has been used in several applications such cast in place grout material in bridge connections [14,15], bridge decks [16], thin slabs [17] and strengthening of existing structures [18][19][20][21]. Meanwhile, limited studies have been conducted on the punching shear behaviour of flat slabs made entirely from UHPC [17,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. One of the key findings of the aforementioned work is that the punching shear strength of UHPC slabs highly depends on the cracking strength of UHPC rather than the ultimate tensile strength [24].…”