Determination of stress-strain curves of concrete from flexure tests

Magazine of Concrete Research

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-250

  Tan, T H ^a,b   Nguyen, N B ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; CONCRETE TESTING; CURVE FITTING; POLYNOMIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRAIN; STRESSES; VECTORS;

COMPRESSED FIBERS; INTEGERS; NEUTRAL AXIS; POWER PARAMETERS;

CONCRETES;

EID: 2342491897     PISSN: 00249831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/macr.2004.56.4.243     Document Type: Article

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