• Regal, Xavier

Abstract

The concrete is one of the most widely used constructional materials. However, its tensile behavior in dynamic is yet not perfectly known. In order to design concrete structures and predict their collapse in the case of industrial accidents, it is mandatory to know its tensile strength. This property depends on the different solicitations to which the concrete can be exposed. In order to characterize the tensile strength of a R30A7 concrete and its dependence on the strain rate, three points bending tests are performed in static and dynamic cases. For this purpose, the most recent standards are used in the static tests. The dynamic ones are carried out with the split Hopkinson pressure bars. This device allows to perform dynamic tests with both the speed and effort loading measurements. Moreover a high speed camera is used to record these experiments in order to acquire full-field displacement measurements with the help of the digital image correlation. Tools using these fields are created to detect the apparition of the crack in one hand, and to follow the crack propagation in the other hand. All these experimental devices and the use of different models, some of which take in account the sample damage, make it possible to determinate the evolution of the tensile strength depending on the strain rate. This work brings forward the fact that ignoring the material damage increases the tensile strength obtain from the tests.

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• experiment
• crack
• strength
• bending flexural test
• tensile strength