High strength steel fiber reinforced concrete (HS-SFRC) used as suppression of conventional reinforcement normal strength reinforced concrete beams (NS-RC) has been in the current experimental research. Five 150x300x2700 mm³ size beams were prepared and submitted to four point bending test until failure. The beam reference have been produced without steel fibers (fc = 30.0 MPa), with longitudinal reinforcement ratio (ρl,t = 0.91%), and transverse reinforcement (ρw = 0.11%), representative of practice applications. Four other HS-SFRC beams were produced with fc = 60.0 MPa, ρl,t = 0.39% (≈ 60.0% suppression relative to reference beam), ρw = 0.0 % (100.0% suppression) and fiber consume (Cf) alternating in 45,0,60,0, 75,0 and 90,0 kg/m³. The behavior beams was analyzed from load-displacement and moment-curvature relations. The viability to design HS-SFRC beams with suppression conventional reinforcements was verified based on these results and material characterization tests, exposing equivalent mechanical behavior and some cases higher that of NS-RC beams.
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