New Experimental Techniques for Evaluating Concrete Material & Structural Performance
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The ACI SP-143:1994 standard addresses the need for accurate and meaningful experimental methods in order to efficiently utilize concrete, ensure public safety, and minimize cost. The standard is particularly relevant in the 1990s when new concretes, admixtures, and reinforcements are being developed.
The standard consists of a table of contents that includes various experimental techniques and topics related to concrete evaluation. Some of the techniques covered in the standard include fiber optic sensor for measuring strain in concrete structures, moving load tests on precast pretensioned concrete railway bridges, measurements for structural performance evaluation, instrumentation of a bridge during strengthening, and evaluation of a continuous prestressed flat-slab bridge system.
Other topics covered in the standard include materials design for fracture diagnosis, experimental and numerical fracture modeling of a gravity dam, closed-loop controlled testing of reinforced concrete beams, measuring the interface confining stress in concrete filled steel tubes, nondestructive techniques to investigate concrete surface topography, behavior of ultrasonic pulses in fresh concrete, accelerated bond and durability testing of FRPs for bridge applications, and large-scale impact testing of reinforced concrete.
| Descriptors | Testing |
| ICS Codes | 19 - Testing |
| Language(s) | English |
| File Size | 11.5 MB |
