Experimental investigation on mechanical properties of steel fiber reinforced recycled aggregate concrete under uniaxial cyclic compression

•Carried out the cyclic compression test of steel fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete.•Improvement effect of steel fiber on recycled concrete specimens from the viewpoint of stiffness degradation and hysteretic energy dissipation.•Constitutive model of stress–strain curve of steel fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete under cyclic loading.