Plain concrete and steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) cylinder specimens are modeled in the finite element (FE) platform of\nANSYS 10.0 and validated with the experimental results and failure patterns. Experimental investigations are conducted to study\nthe increase in compressive and tensile capacity of cylindrical specimens made of stone and brick concrete and SFRC. Satisfactory\ncompressive and tensile capacity improvement is observed by adding steel fibers of 1.5% volumetric ratio. A total of 8 numbers of\ncylinder specimens are cast and tested in 1000 kNcapacity digital universal testingmachine (UTM)and alsomodeled inANSYS.The\nenhancement of compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of SFRC specimen is achieved up to 17% and 146%, respectively,\ncompared to respective plain concrete specimen. Results gathered from finite element analyses are validated with the experimental\ntest results by identifying as well as optimizing the controlling parameters to make FE models. Modulus of elasticity, Poisson�s\nratio, stress-strain behavior, tensile strength, density, and shear transfer coefficients for open and closed cracks are found to be the\nmain governing parameters for successful model of plain concrete and SFRC in FE platform. After proper evaluation and logical\noptimization of these parameters by extensive analyses, finite element (FE) models showed a good correlation with the experimental\nresults.
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