Betonplatten unter Stoßbelastung - Fallturmversuche

Concrete Slabs under Impact Load - Drop Tower Experiments

Impact experiments on reinforced concrete slabs are presented in this work. In order to analyse the behaviour of concrete under high strain rates, an impact mass was dropped from the maximum height of 9 m onto quadratic concrete slabs with a side length of 1 m.
The aim of this work was to enlarge knowledge about subsequent structure protection against rock fall or vehicle impact. With this intention, experimental studies on impact velocity, reinforcement techniques were done to determine the influence to local material behaviour and global structure behaviour. Supplemental steel stirrup reinforcement was added to two of the 15 concrete slabs to increase punching resistance. Subsequent textile reinforcement was applied on six concrete slabs using steel fabric reinforcement as well as carbon fabric reinforcement. As a main result of this study it is shown, that a subsequent textile reinforcement prevents the perforation of the slab. For this reason, textile reinforcement can, for example, be used for protection component in rock fall galleries.