Study of the Effect of Fibre Orientation on Artificially Directed Steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete

Table 1

The uniformity of the steel fibre distribution.

Orientation of the steel fibre	The number of fibres			Proportion (%)
	Top	Bottom	Total	Top	Bottom
Randomly distributed (1a)	37	38	85	43.5	56.5
Randomly distributed (1b)	31	42	73	42.5	57.5
Randomly distributed (1c)	33	35	68	48.5	51.5
Directionally distributed (2a)	36	69	115	31.3	68.7
Directionally distributed (2b)	36	74	109	33.0	67.0
Directionally distributed (2c)	43	83	126	34.1	65.9
Directionally distributed (2d)	46	71	118	39.0	61.0