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Risitano A et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 2 (2016) 2123–2131 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2016) 000–000

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Table 1. ultimate stress and "limit stress " σ 0* (fatigue) of the concrete

Specimen

Ultimate stress [MPa] “limit stress” σ 0 * [MPa]

“limit stress” σ 0 * [MPa]

And an entry

82 77 88

45 54 68

0,55 0,70 0,77 0,64

And another entry And another entry

79,3

50,5

For the constancy of the results, in what follows, are reported only the thermographic results of some specimen. The images of Fig. 1b and Figs. 2a and 2b show an increasing in temperature of about 4 tenths of a degree Celsius between the start and end of test. The chromatic variations represents the temperature of the whole which is coherent with the hourglass shape characteristic of the cube crisis lines (Fig. 5 a, b). Normally it is possible to identify through colour variation, the lines along which the material begins to failure. This happens for a local stress value which is lower than the ultimate specimen stress.

Fig. 5. (a) thermal image of the specimen at the failure; (b) hourglass shape of the specimen at the failure

The Fig. 5 shows, in the three detection points (spots) of the specimen face and at each instant of test, the variation of the increasing temperature while the stress is gradually increasing. The thermo-elastic effect is clearly visible as it is identifiable the moment/time of linearity loss in the ( ∆ T- t) curve to which corresponds the "limit stress" σ 0 * linked to the ( σ -t) curve. The temperature deviates from the straight line for a load of 54 MPa (average value for the three spots) equal to about 70% of the concrete specimen strength.