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High Performance Lightweight Aggregate Concrete under Impact Loading

The resistance of civil engineering constructive works to high dynamic loadings has become increasingly important in recent years. Whether caused by a vehicle collision or falling rocks, an impact event is always an extraordinary load on a building. Due to the high dynamic processes acting at these loading rates, the material properties of concrete are changing significantly compared to the static case. To improve the building design to impact, it is important to know more about the strain rate dependent material behaviour of different types of concrete. The presented experiments on lightweight concrete should make a contribution in this field.
After the description of the high performance lightweight aggregate concrete, an explanation of the experimental setup of the Split-Hopkinson-Bar (SHB) and the measurement technique, the experiments carried out for strain rates of 50 to 150 1/s are presented and the results obtained are discussed. The investigations show that lightweight concrete has a similar behaviour as normal high performance concrete at high loading rates.