Experimental study on the cyclic behavior of steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete columns and evaluation of shear strength

•Performance increase of high strength reinforced concrete columns by inclusion of steel fiber.•Crack control and decrease of crack angle according to the inclusion of steel fiber.•Applicability of existing shear strength prediction equations for steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete columns.•Newly developed shear strength prediction equations considering the stress distribution assumptions and crack angle decrease. In this paper, the effectiveness of steel fiber inclusion on the structural performance of steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete columns was investigated with test of 7-high strength concrete specimens with and without steel fiber. All test specimens were subjected to axial load and reversed cyclic lateral loads. It was shown that test steel fiber inclusion significantly increase the structural performance. Steel fiber inclusion was remarkably effective than the transverse reinforcement about structural performance such as strength and energy dissipation capacity. Steel fiber reinforcement was more effective with high volumetric ratio of transverse reinforcement. Compressive strength of matrix affect to the strength and ductility. High strength matrix column specimens showed better performance than normal strength matrix column specimens. In order to verify the safety of existing strength estimation equations, test results were compared with estimated values. Most of the estimation equations were over estimated the shear strength of concrete. Therefore, in this study, for the safe design of steel fiber reinforced high strength concrete columns, newly developed estimation equation was suggested.