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Dec 1914
The Effect of Saturation on the Strength of Concrete
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Volume 77, Issue 1
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The paucity of recorded information concerning the treatment of concrete specimens, with regard to moisture conditions during their storage while awaiting the test for strength, seems to indicate a general supposition that this feature has no considerable effect on results. Apparently corroborating this attitude is the statement in the recent report of the Special Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, in which, while specifying the exact dimensions, mixing, consistency, age, etc., of test specimens, the only requirement designed to control moisture treatment during their curing seems to be that they shall be “stored under laboratory conditions.” It is the purpose of this paper to invite attention, not only to the great importance of specifying and standardizing the moisture treatment of specimens intended for testing, but also to the further fact that similar conditions, as they act on the finished structures, will affect their strength considerably, and therefore should be considered in specifying the proper unit stresses.
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J. L. Van Ornum, M.ASCE
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