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Table 6 Concrete softening in four experimental tests.

From: On the Evaluation of Prestress Loss in PRC Beams by Means of Dynamic Techniques

Experimental tests

\(\sigma _{c,mean}\)

\(f_{c,iden}\)

\({\sigma _{c,mean}}/{f_{c,iden}}\)

Compression softening

Ā 

(MPa)

(MPa)

Ā Ā 

Saiidi et al. (1994)

10.1

27.8

0.364

Relevant

Kim et al. (2010)

1.0

24.3

0.039

Absent

Zhang and Li (2007)

4.17

43.1

0.097

Moderate

Jang et al. (2010)

5.81

35.2

0.165

Moderate