University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Fatigue of concrete final summary report

Lloyd, John P.; Lott, James L.; Kesler, Clyde E.

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Title
Fatigue of concrete final summary report
Author(s)
  • Lloyd, John P.
  • Lott, James L.
  • Kesler, Clyde E.
Contributor(s)
  • Illinois. The Division of Highways
  • U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Public Roads
Issue Date
1967-09
Keyword(s)
  • Fatigue
  • Concrete
Abstract
Fatigue is a process of progressive, permanent structural change occurring in a material which is subjected to conditions which produce time fluctuating stresses and strains; the structural changes may culminate in cracks or complete fracture after a sufficient number of fluctuations. The fatigue process occurring in plain concrete has been under investigation since about 1900 with the majority of the significant work having been done during the past twenty years. This process has been observed in concrete under repeated compressive and repeated flexural loading, and small amounts of experimental work show that is also occurs under reversed flexural loading and repeated tensile loading. This paper will consider recent research and the present tensile loading. This paper will consider recent research and the present state of knowledge for plain concrete subjected to repeated flexural loading, a loading condition of particular importance in the design of many highway structures. Because of large amounts of data considered but only briefly referred to herein, this must be considered a summary report.
Publisher
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
  • TAM R 675
  • 1977-8649
ISSN
0073-5264
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112379
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Transportation Department Federal Highway Administration 67/09
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 1967 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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