**5. Conclusions**

The main purpose of this paper was to quantify the influences of short steel fibers on the flexural behaviors of the BFRP-RC beams. Ten beams, including nine BFRP-RC beams with steel fibers and one BFRP-RC beam without steel fibers, were tested via four-point bending under cyclic loading. To accurately calculate the deflection of the BFRP-RC beams under serviceability limit states, a modified analytical model for deflection of the BFRP-RC beams with steel fibers under cyclic loading was proposed and compared with the available deflection calculation models for FRP-RC beams without steel fibers. The following main conclusions can be drawn from the results of this research:


**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, H.Z. and Z.L.; formal analysis, Z.L., S.C. and Q.C.; investigation, Q.C. and C.L.; data curation, Q.C.; writing—original draft preparation, Z.L.; writing review and editing, Z.L. and X.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51578510), and the Science and Technology Research and Development Project of CSCEC (under grant No. CSCEC-2021-Z-24).

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
