APPLICATION GUIDE

Rev: 01, Issue Date 03.01.2009

WIRAND® STEEL FIBERS

Flexural Strength Design Values for ACI 360 R/06 and General Structural Applications

Product Description
Wirand® steel fibers can be used for structural design. The principal property that refers to the most relevant codes is the flexural
strength beam test as ASTM C1609, C1399 or JSFC-4.
From the tests can be defined the constitution law of the material for the fracture mechanics concrete analysis, tensile strength, and
shear resistance.
The following tables refer to the suggested values in % of the first crack moment of MOR (Modulus of Rupture). These values can
be used as the Re3 suggested in the ACI 360R-06 and can be used to define the behavior of the material for general structural
designs.
For the detail information and design support please contact your local Maccaferri office.

Fibers Performance

Residual Strength Factor Re3 (%)

Dosage Rate
Typical
Fiber Code Predominant
Aggregates 20 kg/m3 25 kg/m3 30 kg/m3 35 kg/m3 40 kg/m3 45 kg/m3 50 kg/m3
(34 lb/y3) (42 lb/y3) (50 lb/y3) (60 lb/y3) (67 lb/y3) (75 lb/y3) (85 lb/y3)

Wirand®
1” 48 57 64 71 77 83 89
FF1

Wirand®
1” 55 74 88 97 102 108 112
FF3

Wirand®
1/2” 55 75 93 109 122 134 142
FS1

Wirand®
1/2” 33 42 50 57 63 70 75
FS3N

Wirand®
1/2” 39 49 58 67 75 81 87
FS4N

Wirand®
1/2” 48 65 79 92 103 113 120
FS7

*SRFC (Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete)

 Fibers Properties
Dimensions
Tensile Number of
Strength Length Diameter Aspect Ratio Elements
Fiber Type Material
per Mass of
MPa (Kips/in2) mm (in) mm (in) Material
n°/kg (n°/lb)
Wirand® FF1 Steel >1100 (159.5) 50 (1.9695) 1 (0.0394) 50 3244 (1470)

Wirand® FF3 Steel >1100 (159.5) 50 (1.9695) 0.75 (0.0295) 67 5767 (2615)

Wirand® FS1 Steel >1100 (159.5) 37 (1.4567) 0.55 (0.0217) 67 14492 (6573)

Wirand® FS3N Steel >1100 (159.5) 33 (1.2992) 0.75 (0.0295) 44 8738 (3963)

Wirand® FS4N Steel >1100 (159.5) 33 (1.2992) 0.60 (0.0236) 55 13653 (6192)

Wirand® FS7 Steel >1100 (159.5) 33 (1.2992) 0.55 (0.0217) 60 16248 (7369)
320-400
Fibromac® 12 Polypropylene 12 (0.4724) 32 MICRONS 137,000,000
(46.4-58.0)

Fibers Performance
Wirand® Fibromac®
Properties
FF1 FF3 FS1 FS3N FS4N FS7 12
Ductility & Toughness ●●● ●●●● ●●●● ●● ●●● ●●●●
Fatigue Resistance ●● ●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●
Impact Resistance ●●● ●●● ●●●● ●● ●●● ●●●
Permeability ●● ●● ●●● ●● ●● ●●●
Shrinkage ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●●●●
Abrasion ●● ●● ●●● ●● ●● ●●●
Thermal Effects ●●●● ●●●● ●●● ●● ●● ●●●
Fire Resistance ●●●●

●●●● Maximum Performance

● Minimum Performance

Maccaferri reserves the right to amend product specifications

without notice and specifiers are requested to check as to the
validity of the specifications they are using.

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