Title: Strength Tests for Bridge Concrete - Their Meaning and Significance

Author(s): Sandor Popovics

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 26

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 1174-1200

Keywords: bridges (structures); compressive strength; concretes; fatigue (materials); flexural strength; fracture properties; impact strength; quality control; shear strength; tensile strength; torsion

Date: 1/1/1971

Abstract:
In the introduction, the significance of the various concrete strengths, such as compressive, flexural, tensile, shearing, torsion, impact, bond, combined and fatigue strengths, is discussed. The two prinicpal reasons for determining the strength of a bridge concrete are as follows in the rest of the report.