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Impact compression properties of concrete

Grady, D.E.

Controlled impact experiments have been performed on concrete to determine dynamic material properties. The properties assessed include the high-strain-rate yield strength (Hugoniot elastic limit), and details of the inelastic dynamic stress versus strain response of the concrete. The latter features entail the initial void-collapse modulus, the high-stress limiting void-collapse strain, and the stress amplitude dependence of the deformational wave which loads the concrete from the elastic limit to the maximum dynamics stress state. Dynamic stress-versus-strain data are reported over the stress range of the data, from the Hugoniot elastic limit to in excess of 2 GPa. 6 figs, 4 refs, 4 tabs.