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Revisiting the concept of characteristic compressive strength of concrete

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The characteristic compressive strength is one of the most important material property used in structural design and quality control of concrete. Here we show that the estimation of this characteristic strength following classical standard rules (e.g. EN 1992 or ACI-318) is sample size dependent, i.e. is not a characteristic of the material. From an extensive experimental dataset, an analysis of published strength data, and an interpretation of compressive failure as a critical phase transition from an intact to a failed state, we show that the compressive strength of concrete is characterized by a non-vanishing asymptotic mean strength, , but a vanishing associated variability towards very large system sizes. Consequently, the asymptotic strength can be regarded as the genuine characteristic compressive strength of concrete. Based on this, we propose a new procedure to evaluate this genuine characteristic strength as well as to check the conformity of concrete with strength requirements.
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hal-03001586 , version 1 (19-11-2020)

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Chi-Cong Vu, Olivier Plé, Jérôme Weiss, David Amitrano. Revisiting the concept of characteristic compressive strength of concrete. Construction and Building Materials, 2020, 263, pp.120126. ⟨10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.120126⟩. ⟨hal-03001586⟩
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