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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 12

Factors influencing Crack Patterns of Concrete Specimens subjected to Impact Loading

A. Horska, P. Jiricek and M. Foglar

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Horska, P. Jiricek, M. Foglar, "Factors influencing Crack Patterns of Concrete Specimens subjected to Impact Loading", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 12, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.12
Keywords: fibre-reinforced concrete, impact loading, strain-rate effect, crack pattern..

Summary
Research on the impact resistance of plain concrete and fibre reinforced concrete composites has recently become more significant. The issue of extreme loading situations concerns all types of structures, such as buildings or transport infrastructure, so the research of concrete impact resistance has a wide-range of applications. This paper presents the outcomes of an experimental programme focused on the performance of fibre reinforced concrete slabs subjected to impact loading. Deceleration of the impacting burden was measured. Also crack patterns of the damaged specimens were observed and analysed.

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