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Abstract
The construction industry has taken considerable strides forward over the last two or three decades with regard to many materials. High Strength Concrete (HSC) and generally Higher Performing Concrete Materials, or High Performance Concrete (HPC) shows us enormous possibility for concrete to affect society.
Procedure
Select six cylindrical concrete specimens. Attach strain gauges on specimens. Connect wires on each strain gauge. Cap all end bearing surfaces of specimens Place an attached strain gauges and capped cylindrical concrete specimens on the SATEC hydraulic universal testing machine. Press loading and measure data.
Picture I
Picture II
Data
Peak Load(lbs)
Specimen 1 Specimen 2 Specimen 3 192,400 189,900 185,300
Strength(psi)
6,785 6,628 6,537
Specimen 4
Specimen 5 Specimen 6
196,000
193,100 189,400
6,917
6,817 6,685
Graph I
Strains vs Strength Sample 4
7000 6000
Strength (psi)
5000
e (horizontal)
0.4fc
e (vertical)
E
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
-1000
-500
Graph II
ACI Code vs Experimental Results
1.20E+07
Sample 6
ACI Code
Sample 3 Sample 4
10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000
Calculation
a) Youngs Modulus E= P / A E2= 2658.273/ (598.8-50)* 106 = 4843294 E5= 2731.838/ (745.6-40)*106 = 3870464
b) Poissons Ratio V=ex/ ey V2= 90.2/ 598.8= 0.150635 V5= 80.5/ 745.6= 0.107967
Result
Fc(psi) Specimen 1 Specimen 2 6,785 6,628 E 4238,453 4843,294 V 0.282144 0.150635
Specimen 3
Specimen 4 Specimen 5 Specimen 6
6,537
6,917 6,817 6,685
1238,129
1,922,131 3870,464 10516,068
0.07315
0.068072 0.107967 0.545378
Conclusion
From our data results, figure 7, the specimen 6 is the way far from the ACI code. So we can conclude that the specimen 6 have some errors appear while doing the cylinder sample.
Neglect number 6 of our specimen and take an average of them, we get the Poissons ratio is 0.136394. According to our textbook, the Poissons ratio is frequently taken as 0.15 to 0.25. In other words, our experiment is very successful.