@article{Yen Lei_Nematollahi_Mohamed Said_Gopal_Yee_2012, title={Application of Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete – The Malaysia Perspective}, volume={3}, url={https://publisher.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/IJSCET/article/view/391}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm;"><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">One of the most significant breakthroughs in concrete technology at the end of the 20th </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">century was the development of ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">with compressive strength and flexure strength beyond 160 MPa and 30 MPa, respectively; </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">remarkable improvement in workability; durability resembled to natural rocks; ductility and </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">toughness comparable to steel. While over the last two decades a tremendous amount of </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">research works have been undertaken by academics and engineers worldwide, its use in the </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">construction industry remain limited and it is particularly true in the Malaysian context. </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">Aiming to utilizing the technology as an alternative for conventional solutions and within the </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">vision of sustainable construction, it is the intent of this paper to demonstrate how UHPFRC </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">can be used as both a sustainable and economic construction material. In general, UHPFRC </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">structures are able to give immediate saving in terms of primary material consumption, </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">embodied energy, CO2 emissions and global warming potential. The major focus of this paper </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">is to present both the various completed and on-going examples of UHPFRC application in </span><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: small;">Malaysia.</span></p>}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Sustainable Construction Engineering and Technology}, author={Yen Lei, Voo - and Nematollahi, Behzad and Mohamed Said, Abu Bakar and Gopal, Balamurugan A and Yee, Tet Shun}, year={2012}, month={Apr.}, pages={26–44} }