fracture bheviour of amorphous microstructure concrete
SUDHARSAN.S V,Sibi rajan. r
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Civil,Structural,Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Developing
ISSN: 2320-723X Impact Factor:1.7 Volume:3 Issue:1 Year: 03 March,2017 Pages:301-305
Abstract
Safety is an essential concept of engineering design, and it tends to receive greater attention when the consequences of failure are severe. Every industry has its own safety requirement and guidelines to meet its own safety requirements, which includes protection of life and environment against possible hazards due to failures. The safety requirements for different industries vary from one another depending upon their functionality. Mechanical safety is one of the most important of all. Thus considerable steps have been taken in ensuring mechanical safety of the structural components. Usually, for mechanical safety, the design guidelines are based on stress computations and give importance to strength alone. However, concept of designing solely for strength, and using highest strength material without regard to fracture toughness is unreliable. These flaws are neglected by the conventional design approach hence they cannot be relied on all occasions. Hence the structure has to be designed considering the defects or flaws in structural components. Due to these flaws the component’s actual strength cannot be taken and new strength has to be found out for designing.
Kewords
Stress computation, Solely for Strength, Toughness, Flaws.
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