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ABSTRACT
on the concrete surface is one way to assess the prestressing force available in
engineers are often faced with lack of actual design / construction details and
measurement of strain release due to local elastic stress relief, caused by core
(CDSG) were developed to evaluate the in-situ stress under uniaxial and
assessment of in-situ stress under uniaxial stress condition. This technique was
suitably placed along radial- and tangential- directions of the intended core.
These gages are connected through a Wheatstone bridge circuit, in full bridge
diameter core is drilled on the structure up to 50mm depth and the strain
perturbations around the core are measured to evaluate the existing stress.
are compared with the values evaluated using numerical analysis. This
To measure the in-situ stresses under bi-axial stress state, concrete core
strain gage rosette to measure the strain release due to core drilling. The
with those obtained from finite element analysis. The numerical studies and
gages around the core for assessment of in-situ stress. This technique uses six
strain gages in which three strain gages are placed radially and the remaining
three placed tangentially and by combining the radial and tangential gages in a
accuracy. The suitability of the gage position and configuration has been
with results of finite element method. The reliability of the technique was
established from laboratory studies with a known stress field under bi-axial
stress state.
stress under uniaxial and biaxial stress state. The detailed methodology and