As an emerging advanced construction material, strain hardening cementitious composite (SHCC) has seen increasing field applications in recent years. Reliable data on tensile properties, including tensile strength and tensile strain capacity, are needed for structural design and for quality control. However, existing uniaxial tensile tests are relatively complicated and sometime difficult to im...

As emerging advanced construction materials, strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCCs) have seen increasing field applications recently to take advantage of its unique tensile strain hardening behavior, yet existing uniaxial tensile tests are relatively complicated and sometime difficult to implement, particularly for quality control purpose in field applications. This paper presents a n...

As an emerging advanced construction material, strain hardening cementitious composite (SHCC) has seen increasing field applications in recent years. Reliable data on tensile properties, including tensile strength and tensile strain capacity, are needed for structural design and for quality control. However, existing uniaxial tensile tests are relatively complicated and sometime difficult to im...

Testing laboratories need to verify their test procedures and testing capability for reliable results. In this study, equivalent samples are prepared by elastomer materials. This paper is described evaluation of tensile results material specimens tested in according ISO 37 DIN 53504 standards. The proficiency conditions, equipment the were evaluated TS EN ISO/IEC 17043 standard. Finally, Z scor...

This study focuses on the effect of the amount of silica fume addition and volume fraction of steel fiber on the engineering properties of cementitious materials. Test variables include dosage of silica fume (5% and 10%), water/cement ratio (0.35 and 0.55) and steel fiber dosage (0.5%, 1.0% and 2.0%). The experimental results included: compressive strength, direct tensile strength, splitting te...

The shape memory alloys present, in the high temperature phase, a super-elastic behaviour : during a super-elastic test, the martensitic transformation is induced by the stress, and a large reversible deformation is observed. With a single crystal, the maximum superelastic deformation reaches 8 to 10%. During the tensile test on a single crystal, only one variant of martensite is induced in the...

The tensile strength of rocks plays a noteworthy role in their failure mechanism, and its determination can be beneficial in optimizing the design of the rock structures. Schistose rocks due to their inherent anisotropy in different foliation directions show a diverse strength at each direction. The purpose of this work was to compare and assess the tensile strength of phyllite, which was obtai...

Natural fibers are widely used as reinforcing material in composites. Pine needles can be used as natural fibers which are abundantly found in the hilly areas of India. A study on tensile test of pine needles and the crack analysis of pine needles short fiber reinforced composites has been presented in this paper.ASTM D638-10 standard is followed for tensile testing and a number of specimen is ...

This paper describes a nano-scale tensile test to study the fatigue properties of LPCVD silicon nitride thin films using a novel electrostatic actuator design. Mechanical-amplifier devices made in silicon nitride thin films can apply controllable tensile stress (2.0–7.8 GPa) to test structures with relatively low actuation voltages (5.7–35.4 VRMS) at the resonant frequencies of the devices. The...