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The challenges posed by the modern structural requirements demand materials with increasingly improved properties such as strength, stiffness, impact and abrasion resistance. The focus of research shifted to developing high performance materials in this decade. Fibre reinforced concretes prepared with different types of fibres have found many structural applications. However, the ductility of fibre reinforced concrete basically depends on the volume fraction of fibres used in the production though various other factors such as type of fibre, its aspect ratio and tensile strength of fibre can also influence the ductility. Efforts have been made to produce fibre reinforced concrete with fibres up to 6% but were affected by difficulties in placing and mixing of high volume of fibres. Special production methodologies developed in the modern days to overcome this difficulty have lead to the development of another high performance material called as slurry infiltrated fibrous concrete (SIFCON). SIFCON is one such high performance material that possesses excellent mechanical properties coupled with greater energy absorption characteristics. Ever since its invention by David Lankard1, SIFCON has attracted many researchers and structural engineers. This composite can be considered as a special fibre reinforced concrete. Normally, fibre reinforced concrete contains 1-3% fibres by volume, whereas SIFCON contains 6-20% of fibres. The other major difference is in the composition of the matrix. In SIFCON, the matrix is made of flowing cement mortar slurry as opposed to aggregate concrete in normal fibre reinforced concrete. The casting process is also different for SIFCON. In most cases, SIFCON is fabricated by infiltrating a bed of pre-placed fibres with cement slurry.
 Even though, SIFCON is a recent construction material, it has found applications in the areas of pavements repairs, repair of bridge structures, safe vaults and defence structures due to its excellent energy absorption capacities2,3. Due to its extra-ordinary ductility characteristics, it has a lot of potential for applications in structures subjected to impact and dynamic loading. However, these applications can be attempted only after evaluating the basic mechanical properties. Since the composite is relatively new, only limited amount of information is available regarding its behaviour. Lankard1, presented the basic properties of SIFCON (prepared with 12.5% of fibres) such as load-deflection curve, ultimate compressive and flexural strengths, impact and abrasion resistance. Singh et al.4, studied the stress-strain behaviour in compression and tension by preparing SIFCON with 10% volume fraction of fibres by adding fly-ash in the matrix. Naman and Baccouche5, presented the shear response of dowel reinforced SIFCON. They observed that the shear strength of SIFCON is 10 times higher than that of the plain matrix. The behaviour of reinforced concrete beams with SIFCON matrix has been studied by