A comprehensive experimental review of strain rate, size effect, creep and confinement in concrete: Part III

A comprehensive review of destructive testing techniques to understand concrete behavior is presented in this work. The main objective of this article is to summarize the literature from the last three decades related to the following topics: 1) the size effect in plain and reinforced concrete, 2) the crack estimation and propagation in concrete under various loading conditions, 3) the determination of material properties of concrete using triaxial testing techniques, 4) the behavior of concrete under creep and early age shrinkage which eventually affect the properties of concrete and lastly 5) the strain rate effect in concrete using various experimental techniques such as Split Hopkinson pressure bar, impact loading, drop hammer and the literature related to cyclic loading on concrete. The scope of the presented work is limited to destructive testing related to the topics defined above. To completely understand the behavior of material, at least three aspects must be required: the material’s theoretical basics, experimental validation, and numerical implementation. The authors presented the review articles related to theoretical basics and numerical implementation in parts I and II of this article. The presented work is part III, which is related to experimental work. In the upcoming section, the research related to specific topics is presented, and a summary is provided at the end of each section. Finally, the future works and the research directions are shown in the conclusion section.