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Table 4.2Age and compressive strength <strong>of</strong> overlay and substrate <strong>material</strong>s on the day indirect tension testBatch NSC Substrate UHPC overlayN° Age f c f ct N° Age f cDry Substrate, w/o and 300 FT 5 270-278 6.78 0.55 10 221-231 22.46Wet Substrate, w/o and 300 FT 4 278-280 6.46 0.54 6 185-186 22.14Wet Substrate, 600 FT 2 417-418 7.88 0.59 6 296-298 22.44Wet Substrate, 900 FT 4 437-438 7.79 0.59 6 317-319 22.20Monolithic, w/o and 300 FT 2 227-228 8.61 0.62 No applicableMonolithic, 600 and 900 FT 4 314-315 8.27 0.61 No applicableNote: N°: number <strong>of</strong> cylinders, w/o: without freeze-thaw cycles, FT: freeze-thaw cycles. Age in days.Strength in ksi.Table 4.3 sorts out the different NSC mixes with the corresponding samples c<strong>as</strong>t fromeach and gives their compressive strengths at the age <strong>of</strong> 28 days.Table 4.3Age and compressive strength <strong>of</strong> overlay and substrate <strong>material</strong>s on the day indirect tension testNSC SubstrateMixBatchN° Age(days) Strength(ksi)1 st NSC mix Dry Substrate, w/o and 300 FT 2 28 6.512 nd NSC mix Wet Substrate, w/o and 300 FT 2 28 6.303 rd NSC mix Wet Substrate, 600 and 900 FT 2 28 6.854 th NSC mix Monolithic: w/o , 300, 600 and 900 FT 2 28 7.40Note: N°: number <strong>of</strong> cylinders, w/o: without freeze-thaw cycles, FT cycles: freeze-thaw cycles. Age in days.The splitting tensile test w<strong>as</strong> carried out <strong>as</strong> described in 3.7.1.2. A large number <strong>of</strong> thecomposite specimens c<strong>as</strong>t with the old substrate being dry failed during the cuttingprocess, indicating a general failure <strong>of</strong> the bond from construction (Austin et al. 1999)shows the percentage <strong>of</strong> prisms that split before the loading test with the dry <strong>concrete</strong>substrate.Table 4.4Percentage <strong>of</strong> prisms that failed prematurely under dry <strong>concrete</strong> substrate conditionC<strong>as</strong>e Percentage <strong>of</strong> failure (%) C<strong>as</strong>e Percentage <strong>of</strong> failure (%)Sb 300 FT 50 Sm 300 FT 50Sb w/o 16.7 Sm w/o 75Br 300 FT 83.3 Ch 300 FT 100Br w/o 66.7 Ch w/o 100Note: Sb: sandbl<strong>as</strong>ted, Br: brushed, Sm: smooth, Ch: chipped, w/o: without freeze-thaw cycles, FT: freezethawcycles.75

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