Modulus of Elasticity and Poisson Ratio of Concrete

By: Tzu-Ting Yang Byoungsok Shin

Abstract

The construction industry has taken considerable strides forward over the last two or three decades with regard to many materials. High Strength Concrete (HSC) and generally Higher Performing Concrete Materials, or High Performance Concrete (HPC) shows us enormous possibility for concrete to affect society.

Introduction of the project

Determination of compressive strength of cylindrical concrete specimens such as molded cylinders.

To gain additional knowledge on property of concrete such as Youngs modulus and Poisson ratio.

Procedure

Select six cylindrical concrete specimens. Attach strain gauges on specimens. Connect wires on each strain gauge. Cap all end bearing surfaces of specimens Place an attached strain gauges and capped cylindrical concrete specimens on the SATEC hydraulic universal testing machine. Press loading and measure data.

Picture I

Picture II

Data
Peak Load(lbs)
Specimen 1 Specimen 2 Specimen 3 192,400 189,900 185,300

Strength(psi)
6,785 6,628 6,537

Specimen 4
Specimen 5 Specimen 6

196,000
193,100 189,400

6,917
6,817 6,685

Graph I
Strains vs Strength Sample 4
7000 6000

Strength (psi)

5000

e (horizontal)

0.4fc

e (vertical)

4000 3000 2000 1000 0

E
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500

-1000

-500

Strain (10E-6) Fig 4.

Graph II
ACI Code vs Experimental Results
1.20E+07

Young's Modulus (psi)

1.00E+07 8.00E+06 6.00E+06 4.00E+06 2.00E+06 0.00E+00 0 5000

Sample 6

Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 5

ACI Code

Sample 3 Sample 4
10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000

Strength (psi) Fig 7.

Calculation

a) Youngs Modulus E= P / A E2= 2658.273/ (598.8-50)* 106 = 4843294 E5= 2731.838/ (745.6-40)*106 = 3870464
b) Poissons Ratio V=ex/ ey V2= 90.2/ 598.8= 0.150635 V5= 80.5/ 745.6= 0.107967

Result
Fc(psi) Specimen 1 Specimen 2 6,785 6,628 E 4238,453 4843,294 V 0.282144 0.150635

Specimen 3
Specimen 4 Specimen 5 Specimen 6

6,537
6,917 6,817 6,685

1238,129
1,922,131 3870,464 10516,068

0.07315
0.068072 0.107967 0.545378

Conclusion

From our data results, figure 7, the specimen 6 is the way far from the ACI code. So we can conclude that the specimen 6 have some errors appear while doing the cylinder sample.
Neglect number 6 of our specimen and take an average of them, we get the Poissons ratio is 0.136394. According to our textbook, the Poissons ratio is frequently taken as 0.15 to 0.25. In other words, our experiment is very successful.