Testing of Concrete and Quality control 2

[sro2ck]

Why the direct tensile test of concrete is not done?

 

[concretemasonry]

Maybe because there are few applications that need that value.

I have seen some tensile splitting tests on cylinders, but the variation is seemed to be very high, but that was for an academic purpose and it was hoped it would be added to the history to create some additional data.

Dick

Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.

 

[dik]

For flexural tension, beam testing is often done. This doesn't generally have the same scatter as splitting tensile testing or direct tensile testing.

Dik