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Prediction of Mean and Design Fatigue Lives of Self Compacting Concrete Beams in Flexure

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In this paper, result of an investigation conducted to study the flexural fatigue characteristics of self compacting concrete (SCC) beams in flexure are presented. An experimental programme was planned in which approximately 60 SCC beam specimens of size 100 × 100 × 500 mm were tested under flexural fatigue loading. Approximately 45 static flexural tests were also conducted to facilitate fatigue testing. The flexural fatigue and static flexural strength tests were conducted on a 100 kN servo-controlled actuator. The fatigue life data thus obtained have been used to establish the probability distributions of fatigue life of SCC using two-parameter Weibull distribution. The parameters of the Weibull distribution have been obtained by different methods of analysis. Using the distribution parameters, the mean and design fatigue lives of SCC have been estimated and compared with Normally vibrated concrete (NVC), the data for which have been taken from literature. It has been observed that SCC exhibits higher mean and design fatigue lives compared to NVC.

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Abbreviations

α:

Shape parameter of Weibull distribution

Г():

Gamma function

E[N]:

Mean fatigue life

f r :

Static flexural strength

f max :

Maximum fatigue stress

f min :

Minimum fatigue stress

L R :

Survival probability

N :

Number of cycles to failure

N D :

Design fatigue life

P f :

Probability of failure

R :

Stress ratio = f min/f max

S :

Stress level = f max/f r

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  1. DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jalandhar, 144 008, India

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  2. Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 144 011, India

    S. P. Singh (Non-member) & P. Singh (Associate Member)

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

    S. K. Kaushik (Fellow)

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Goel, S., Singh, S.P., Singh, P. et al. Prediction of Mean and Design Fatigue Lives of Self Compacting Concrete Beams in Flexure. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. A 93, 55–61 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-012-0007-6

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