SikaFiber® Force-48
Synthetic macro fiber for shotcrete and concrete.
SikaFiber® Force-48 is a 48 mm long macro synthetic fiber for use in structural concrete and shotcrete. Specifically engineered and manufactured in an ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility.
Improves characteristics of hardened concrete
- Highly increased energy absorption for sprayed concrete
- Crack bridging capacity, especially at large crack openings
- Increased durability due to high chemical resistance
- Rust-free surfaces
- Dissipates strains in concrete and prevents structural cracking
- Increases impact and shatter resistance
- Improves load capacity and ductility
- Increases abrasion resistance
- Increases resistance to freeze thaw attack
- Reduces or eliminates the traditional reinforcing
- Easier to handle
- Pumpable Reinforcement
- No cutting, chairing, placing or tying
- Reduction of construction time
- Homogeniously mixed throughout concrete - Always in the correct location
- Fills edges, corners and difficult shapes
- Reducing embodied carbon through the replacement of convention steel reinforcement with synthetic structural fibers.
- Reduced wear on concrete pumps and hoses compared to steel fibers
- No corrosion stains on surface
- Greater energy absorption at higher displacements