Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings (Dec 2018)

CHARACTERIZATION OF CEMENT-BASED COMPOSITE EXPOSED TO HIGH TEMPERATURES VIA ULTRASONIC PULSE METHOD

  • Iva Rozsypalová,
  • Michal Vyhlídal,
  • Richard Dvořák,
  • Tomáš Majda,
  • Libor Topolář,
  • Luboš Pazdera,
  • Hana Šimonová,
  • Zbyněk Keršner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2018.15.0099
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 0
pp. 99 – 103

Abstract

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In this paper, the attention is paid to the investigation of the influence of high temperature acting on specimens made from specially designed cement-based composite. The experimental programme was carried out on six sets of beam specimens with the dimensions of 20 × 40 × 200 mm. The specimens were loaded to a pre-set temperature of 100, 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 °C and then the temperature was kept for 60 minutes. When the temperature loading had been done, the specimens were left to cool down to the ambient temperature. After that, the ultrasonic pulse method was used to determine the degree of damage of temperature loaded specimens. The measured data obtained by this non-destructive method are in high correlation with values of informative compressive strength of the composite obtained after the temperature loading of specimens.

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