Fatigue of Ferro-Cement

Abstract

Ferro-cement is a cement mortar with a high relative volume of well dispersed steel wire reinforcement. The material properties of ferrocement are neither those of the mortar alone nor of the reinforcement and vary as the mortar and reinforcement configurations are changed. In this study, several variations of ferro-cement were fabricated and subjected to constant amplitude cyclic loads up to ten million cycles. Stress versus cycles-to-failure plots were developed and comparisons between the data for various ferro-cement modifications were made. Monotonic tests were conducted on the ferro-cement to allow comparisons with work conducted by other experimenters. An investigation of the fracture surface was conducted using a scanning electron microscope.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0781403

Entities

People

  • Michael G. Simpson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bending Stress
  • Composite Materials
  • Construction
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Engineering
  • Flexural Strength
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Working
  • Microscopes
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Tensile Strength
  • United States
  • Yield Strength

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Pavement Materials Engineering.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics