Experimental Study of Reinforced Concrete Slabs under Different Loading Rates

• Main Authors: Xiao, Yao, Li, Bing, Fujikake, Kazunori
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Dynamic behavior; Impact; Loading rate; Reinforced concrete slab
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82651; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40266
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eighteen reinforced concrete (RC) slabs were manufactured and tested under static (0.0004 m/s [0.0013 ft/s]), medium (0.4 m/s [0.13 ft/s]), and high (2 m/s [6.6 ft/s]) rates of concentrated loading at slab center using a displacement-controlled rapid-loading machine. The data from the experiment wer...