Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations SSS148 on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Tensile Strength of concrete

Status
Not open for further replies.

mathcadboy

Civil/Environmental
Sep 14, 2009
38
can anybody tell me a reference where I can get the tensile strength of concrete after 3 days of curing. thanks.
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

The tensile strength of concrete is never very high, even when fully cured, so at 3 days, don't count on anything.

Also, tensile strength is more variable than compressive strength. While there is a relationship between the two, in my experience I've seen the tensile strength be more variable.

I'm curious as to why this is important at 3 days. Are you concerned about direct tension or modulus of rupture for flexure?

You can also do a splitting tensile test on cylinders molded for compressive strength.
 
It is a variable requirement in the australian code AS3735 to get the minimum reinforcement for unrestrained concrete.

min steel ratio = fct3 / fy

fct3 = the principal tensile strength of concrete at three days.

anybody have an idea where to get this value? i cant find it here in the code...
 
Assuming the tensile strength at f'c is 10% of f'c, then the tensile strength at 3 days would be about 0.4 to 0.5 times that value, assuming approximately 22C ambient and a normal mix (w/c about 0.50 or less) without flyash or GGBFS. So...

For 30 MPa mix, ultimate tensile would be about 3 MPa and at 3 days, about 1.5 MPa.

These are rough correlations that can be found in most of the literature (for example, A.M. Neville...any edition)

hokie66, RE, BigH....check me on this!
 
both tensile and compressive strength is highly dependant on the mix design and curing conditions. for example if using high early strength mix design, it will be higher than if using a mix high in fly ash. Curing temperature will also play a significant role in strength gain. the best source for this is test results from the actual mix. ask your ready mix supplier for it.
 
The tensile splitting test can high variations because of the nature of the test and variables.

In my experience the variations are higher than those for cylinders or pavers that are tested on at a controlled loading rate.

Dick

Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor