Experimental Tests on Fiber-Reinforced Alkali-Activated Concrete Beams Under Flexure: Some Considerations on the Behavior at Ultimate and Serviceability Conditions.

Alkali-activated concrete (AAC) is an alternative concrete typology whose innovative feature, compared to ordinary concrete, is represented by the use of fly ash as a total replacement of Portland cement. Fly ash combined with an alkaline solution and cured at high temperature reacts to form a geopolymeric binder. The growing interest in using AACs for structural applications comes from the need of reducing the global demand of Portland cement, whose production is responsible for about 9% of global anthropogenic CO