This document summarizes the results of tests on 6 concrete cylinder units under concentric loading. It includes the material properties, loading conditions, and failure modes. The key results are:
1) Graphs show the load-longitudinal strain behavior for each unit, with steps down indicating fracture of hoop reinforcement.
2) The core concrete stress-strain curves were calculated by subtracting the contributions of longitudinal steel and cover concrete from the total load-strain data.
3) For units loaded at low strain rates, the core concrete behaved similarly up to the first hoop fracture, reaching 25-30% of cylinder compressive strength.
This document summarizes the results of tests on 6 concrete cylinder units under concentric loading. It includes the material properties, loading conditions, and failure modes. The key results are:
1) Graphs show the load-longitudinal strain behavior for each unit, with steps down indicating fracture of hoop reinforcement.
2) The core concrete stress-strain curves were calculated by subtracting the contributions of longitudinal steel and cover concrete from the total load-strain data.
3) For units loaded at low strain rates, the core concrete behaved similarly up to the first hoop fracture, reaching 25-30% of cylinder compressive strength.
This document summarizes the results of tests on 6 concrete cylinder units under concentric loading. It includes the material properties, loading conditions, and failure modes. The key results are:
1) Graphs show the load-longitudinal strain behavior for each unit, with steps down indicating fracture of hoop reinforcement.
2) The core concrete stress-strain curves were calculated by subtracting the contributions of longitudinal steel and cover concrete from the total load-strain data.
3) For units loaded at low strain rates, the core concrete behaved similarly up to the first hoop fracture, reaching 25-30% of cylinder compressive strength.
This document summarizes the results of tests on 6 concrete cylinder units under concentric loading. It includes the material properties, loading conditions, and failure modes. The key results are:
1) Graphs show the load-longitudinal strain behavior for each unit, with steps down indicating fracture of hoop reinforcement.
2) The core concrete stress-strain curves were calculated by subtracting the contributions of longitudinal steel and cover concrete from the total load-strain data.
3) For units loaded at low strain rates, the core concrete behaved similarly up to the first hoop fracture, reaching 25-30% of cylinder compressive strength.
rate. Sorne error is introduced in using the results of
Unit 1 to represent the behavior of the cover concrete for the units with the high strain rate, but the error is Fig. 8 - Features oí failure for various test units srnall. For exarnple, an error of 0.15 fe' in the stress carried by the concrete cover would cause a 2 percent difference to the stress carried by the concrete core. sus the longitudinal strain. These results are plotted for The load-longitudinal strain curve for the core concrete six typical test units in Fig. 9 to 14. The plotted results was attained by subtracting the contributions of the for all the units rnay be seen elsewhere.' Sorne infor- longitudinal steel and the cover concrete frorn the total rnation on rneasured stresses and strains is given in load-longitudinal strain curves. Dividing by the core Table l. area enabled the core concrete stress-longitudinal strain curve to be obtained; this curve has been plotted in Concentrically loaded units Fig. 9 to 12 up to the stage of first hoop fracture as Fig. 9 to 12 illustrate the results obtained frorn typ- a fraction of cylinder cornpressive strength. The core ical concentrically loaded units with low and high area was rneasured to the outside of the peripheral strain rates. The load-longitudinal strain curves show hoop, in keeping with the definition in the ACI code. 1 the sequential fracture of the hoops as steps of de- Exarnination of Fig. 9 to 12 indicates that substantial creasing load. Superirnposed on those figures are also enhancernent of peak concrete core cornpressive the load-longitudinal strain curves for the longitudinal strength was obtained as a result of the confinernent. steel and the cover concrete. The load-strain curve for For Units 2 and 6, tested at the low strain rate, the the longitudinal steel in cornpression was calculated strength enhancernent was about 20 percent, while for using the stress-strain curves rneasured in tension at a U nits 3 and 15, tested at the high strain rate, the low loading rate on bar sarnples. The load-strain curve strength enhancernent was about 70 percent, related to for the concrete cover was calculated frorn the stress- the unconfined cylinder cornpressive strength. The con- strain curve rneasured up to a strain of 0.01 on the sistent strength enhancernent found in these tests as a unreinforced U nit 1 which was tested at the low strain result of confinernent contradicts earlier conclusions by ACI JOURNAL I January-February 1982 19
