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Brazil requires a wide deployment of systems for drainage and, especially, sewage collection and treatment. To resolve this issue may be interesting the use of concrete pipes. Although recent, the study of fiber reinforced concrete pipes has already enabled the revision of the Brazilian standard NBR 8890:2007. This standard allows the use of fibers as the sole reinforcement for the components. However, only steel fibers are allowed. Despite the possibility that fibers can provide a potential higher durability compared to the conventionally reinforced concrete pipes, there is also the possibility of extension of the pipe lifetime by the use of polymeric fibers. This kind of fiber is resistant to electrolytic corrosion and, nowadays, is available in the Brazilian market. The remaining doubt is if these fibers can provide the same mechanical performance of steel fibers. Thus, this work has the main objective of carried out a comparative evaluation of the mechanical performance of polymeric fibers and steel fibers reinforcement for drainage concrete pipes. In order to enable these assessments, a verification of mechanical performance was made through the crushing test, where the diametric displacement of the pipes was also measured. In addition, tests were made in order to measure the concrete water absorption, the fiber actual consumption determination in cores extracted from the pipes, and compressive strength determination. The results showed that the polymeric macrofibers did not reach satisfactory performance, especially regarding to the residual post-crack strength. Only the steel fiber reinforced concrete pipes were able to fit the requirements, which had twice the post-crack residual strength presented by the polymeric fibers with the same content by volume. Thus, the fibers reinforced concrete pipes with diameter of one meter, used in this experimental program, showed difficult to obtaining the post-cracking behavior, which turns difficult the approval in the Brazilian standard criteria. So, the pipes reinforced with polymeric fibers could only possibly reach the load levels specified for post-crack strength by the use of a higher content or an increased length of fibers, which would turns much more difficult the concrete pipes production.

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