DOI : https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.8.4.5606

Experimental Investigation of Impact Load Effect on the Flexural Behavior of Reactive Powder Concrete Slabs with Different Thicknesses

AL Zahid Ali Adnan (1), AL Kulabi Ahmed Kamil (2)
(1) University of Kufa
(2) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kufa, Kufa, Najaf, 54001, Iraq
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Ali Adnan, AL Zahid, and AL Kulabi Ahmed Kamil. “Experimental Investigation of Impact Load Effect on the Flexural Behavior of Reactive Powder Concrete Slabs With Different Thicknesses”. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 8, no. 4, July 2018, pp. 1043-8, doi:10.18517/ijaseit.8.4.5606.
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Recently, buildings have been exposed to terrorist attacks that generate impact loads on their elements and affect their serviceability loads, which is the thing that inspired researchers to investigate the properties of reactive powder concrete, such as strength, serviceability loads, impact load, and the influences of impact loads on standard weight concrete separately. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is studying the flexural behavior of reactive powder concrete after applying impact load caused by the attacks. For this study, three reactive powder concrete slabs: the first one is with 80-mm thickness, the second one is with 60-mm, and the third one is with 40-mm thickness, were statically loaded after being subjected to impact load. Moreover, then a number of the three slabsꞌ properties were investigated, such as flexural load capacity, deflection, and number and widths of cracks. The laboratory tests have approved that the slab with the higher thickness and steel fiber has improved and provided the best serviceability loads after being dynamically loaded.

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