“…The high-performance fiber reinforced concrete, CARDIFRC, developed and produced at Cardiff University (Benson & Karihaloo, 2005a,b;Benson, Nicolaides, & Karihaloo, 2005) was tested using the Hopkinson Split Bar (HSB) equipment (with steel bar diameter 20 mm) (Akopov et al, 2003). Standard Brazil tests were conducted on circular discs of CARDIFRC (diameter 15 mm and thickness 10 mm).…”