Evaluation of Elastic Anisotropy of Concrete Using Ultrasound Wave Propagation
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 32, Issue 4
Abstract
The aim of this study was to test the isotropic behavior hypothesis for concrete by means of wave propagation tests. The elastic properties of the concrete were determined using ultrasound tests with 1.0 MHz longitudinal and transversal transducers in polyhedral specimens with 26 faces. The concrete was analyzed using the theoretical aspects of three types of elastic behavior, namely isotropy, transverse isotropy, and orthotropy, in concretes with different compressive strengths and coarse aggregate size distributions. The results show that there were no statistically significant differences in the elastic parameters on the three symmetry axes. The constitutive relation between the shear modulus and longitudinal modulus, which involves Poisson’s ratio, was as expected for isotropic materials, and the elastic properties of the concrete differed equally as a function of the compressive strength. Considering the results, the isotropic behavior of the concrete was validated regardless of the elastic behavior adopted in the analyses.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Support Fund for Teaching, Research and Extension (FAEPEX) for the scholarship, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), São Paulo, Brazil (Proc. 2016/00658-4) for the research funding and the Coordination of Improvement of Higher-Level Personnel (CAPES, Brazil) for financing part of this study.
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Volume 32 • Issue 4 • April 2020
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Received: Mar 22, 2019
Accepted: Jul 30, 2019
Published online: Feb 4, 2020
Published in print: Apr 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Jul 4, 2020
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