Compressive strength

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In mechanics, compressive strength (or compression strength) is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to reduce size (as opposed to tensile strength which withstands loads tending to elongate). In other words, compressive strength resists compression (being pushed together), whereas tensile strength resists tension (being pulled apart). In the study of strength of materials, tensile strength, compressive strength, and shear strength can be analyzed independently.

Introduction

Tension

Compression

When a specimen of material is loaded in such a way that it extends it is said to be in tension. On the other hand, if the material compresses and shortens it is said to be in compression.

On an atomic level, the molecules or atoms are forced apart when in tension whereas in compression they are forced together. Since atoms in solids always try to find an equilibrium position, and distance between other atoms, forces arise throughout the entire material which oppose both tension or compression. The phenomena prevailing on an atomic level are therefore similar.

The "strain" is the relative change in length under applied stress; positive strain characterizes an object under tension load which tends to lengthen it, and a compressive stress that shortens an object gives negative strain. Tension tends to pull small sideways deflections back into alignment, while compression tends to amplify such deflection into buckling.

Compressive strength is measured on materials, components,^[1] and structures.^[2]

By definition, the ultimate compressive strength of a material is that value of uniaxial compressive stress reached when the material fails completely. The compressive strength is usually obtained experimentally by means of a compressive test. The apparatus used for this experiment is the same as that used in a tensile test. However, rather than applying a uniaxial tensile load, a uniaxial compressive load is applied. As can be imagined, the specimen (usually cylindrical) is shortened as well as spread laterally. A stress–strain curve is plotted by the instrument and would look similar to the following:

The compressive strength of the material corresponds to the stress at the red point shown on the curve. In a compression test, there is a linear region where the material follows Hooke's law. Hence, for this region, $\sigma =E\varepsilon ,$ where, this time, $E$ refers to the Young's modulus for compression. In this region, the material deforms elastically and returns to its original length when the stress is removed.

This linear region terminates at what is known as the yield point. Above this point the material behaves plastically and will not return to its original length once the load is removed.

There is a difference between the engineering stress and the true stress. By its basic definition the uniaxial stress is given by:

\sigma ={\frac {F}{A}},

where $F$ is load applied [N] and $A$ is area [m²].

As stated, the area of the specimen varies on compression. In reality therefore the area is some function of the applied load i.e. $A = f (F)$ . Indeed, stress is defined as the force divided by the area at the start of the experiment. This is known as the engineering stress, and is defined by

\sigma _{e}={\frac {F}{A_{0}}},

where $A 0$ is the original specimen area [m²].

Correspondingly, the engineering strain is defined by

\varepsilon _{e}={\frac {l-l_{0}}{l_{0}}},

where $l$ is the current specimen length [m] and $l 0$ is the original specimen length [m].

The compressive strength therefore corresponds to the point on the engineering stress–strain curve $\left(\varepsilon _{e}^{*},\sigma _{e}^{*}\right)$ defined by

\sigma _{e}^{*}={\frac {F^{*}}{A_{0}}}

\varepsilon _{e}^{*}={\frac {l^{*}-l_{0}}{l_{0}}},

where $F *$ is the load applied just before crushing and $l *$ is the specimen length just before crushing.

Deviation of engineering stress from true stress

In engineering design practice, professionals mostly rely on the engineering stress. In reality, the true stress is different from the engineering stress. Hence calculating the compressive strength of a material from the given equations will not yield an accurate result.^{[ clarification needed ]} This is because the cross sectional area $A 0$ changes and is some function of load $A = φ (F)$ .

The difference in values may therefore be summarized as follows: On compression, the specimen will shorten. The material will tend to spread in the lateral direction and hence increase the cross sectional area.

Comparison of compressive and tensile strengths

Concrete and ceramics typically have much higher compressive strengths than tensile strengths. Composite materials, such as glass fiber epoxy matrix composite, tend to have higher tensile strengths than compressive strengths. Metals are difficult to test to failure in tension vs compression. In compression metals fail from buckling/crumbling/45° shear which is much different (though higher stresses) than tension which fails from defects or necking down.

Compressive failure modes

If the ratio of the length to the effective radius of the material loaded in compression (Slenderness ratio) is too high, it is likely that the material will fail under buckling. Otherwise, if the material is ductile yielding usually occurs which displaying the barreling effect discussed above. A brittle material in compression typically will fail by axial splitting, shear fracture, or ductile failure depending on the level of constraint in the direction perpendicular to the direction of loading. If there is no constraint (also called confining pressure), the brittle material is likely to fail by axial splitting. Moderate confining pressure often results in shear fracture, while high confining pressure often leads to ductile failure, even in brittle materials.^[3]

Axial Splitting relieves elastic energy in brittle material by releasing strain energy in the directions perpendicular to the applied compressive stress. As defined by a materials Poisson ratio a material compressed elastically in one direction will strain in the other two directions. During axial splitting a crack may release that tensile strain by forming a new surface parallel to the applied load. The material then proceeds to separate in two or more pieces. Hence the axial splitting occurs most often when there is no confining pressure, i.e. a lesser compressive load on axis perpendicular to the main applied load.^[4] The material now split into micro columns will feel different frictional forces either due to inhomogeneity of interfaces on the free end or stress shielding. In the case of stress shielding, inhomogeneity in the materials can lead to different Young's modulus. This will in turn cause the stress to be disproportionately distributed, leading to a difference in frictional forces. In either case this will cause the material sections to begin bending and lead to ultimate failure.^[5]

Microcracking

Figure 1: microcrack nucleation and propagation Customhw406figure.jpg — Figure 1: microcrack nucleation and propagation

Microcracks are a leading cause of failure under compression for brittle and quasi-brittle materials. Sliding along crack tips leads to tensile forces along the tip of the crack. Microcracks tend to form around any pre-existing crack tips. In all cases it is the overall global compressive stress interacting with local microstructural anomalies to create local areas of tension. Microcracks can stem from a few factors.

Porosity is the controlling factor for compressive strength in many materials. Microcracks can form around pores, until about they reach approximately the same size as their parent pores. (a)
Stiff inclusions within a material such as a precipitate can cause localized areas of tension. (b) When inclusions are grouped up or larger, this effect can be amplified.
Even without pores or stiff inclusions, a material can develop microcracks between weak inclined (relative to applied stress) interfaces. These interfaces can slip and create a secondary crack. These secondary cracks can continue opening, as the slip of the original interfaces keeps opening the secondary crack (c). The slipping of interfaces alone is not solely responsible for secondary crack growth as inhomogeneities in the material's Young's modulus can lead to an increase in effective misfit strain. Cracks that grow this way are known as wingtip microcracks.^[6]

It is important to emphasize that the growth of microcracks is not the growth of the original crack/imperfection. The cracks that nucleate do so perpendicular to the original crack and are known as secondary cracks.^[7] The figure below emphasizes this point for wingtip cracks.

These secondary cracks can grow to as long as 10-15 times the length of the original cracks in simple (uniaxial) compression. However, if a transverse compressive load is applied. The growth is limited to a few integer multiples of the original crack's length.^[7]

A secondary crack growing from the tip of a preexisting crack Wingtipmicrocrack.jpg — A secondary crack growing from the tip of a preexisting crack

Shear bands

If the sample size is large enough such that the worse defect's secondary cracks cannot grow large enough to break the sample, other defects within the sample will begin to grow secondary cracks as well. This will occur homogeneously over the entire sample. These micro-cracks form an echelon that can form an “intrinsic” fracture behavior, the nucleus of a shear fault instability. Shown right:

Eventually this leads the material deforming non-homogeneously. That is the strain caused by the material will no longer vary linearly with the load. Creating localized shear bands on which the material will fail according to deformation theory. “The onset of localized banding does not necessarily constitute final failure of a material element, but it presumably is at least the beginning of the primary failure process under compressive loading.”^[8]

Typical values

Material	R_s (MPa)
Steel	250-1,500
Porcelain	20-1,000^[9]
Bone	106-131^[10]
Concrete	17-70^[11]
Ice (−5 to −20 °C)	5–25^[12]
Ice (0 °C)	3^[13]
Styrofoam	~1

Compressive strength of concrete

For designers, compressive strength is one of the most important engineering properties of concrete. It is standard industrial practice that the compressive strength of a given concrete mix is classified by grade. Cubic or cylindrical samples of concrete are tested under a compression testing machine to measure this value. Test requirements vary by country based on their differing design codes. Use of a Compressometer is common. As per Indian codes, compressive strength of concrete is defined as:

The compressive strength of concrete is given in terms of the characteristic compressive strength of 150 mm size cubes tested after 28 days (fck). In field, compressive strength tests are also conducted at interim duration i.e. after 7 days to verify the anticipated compressive strength expected after 28 days. The same is done to be forewarned of an event of failure and take necessary precautions. The characteristic strength is defined as the strength of the concrete below which not more than 5% of the test results are expected to fall.^[14]

For design purposes, this compressive strength value is restricted by dividing with a factor of safety, whose value depends on the design philosophy used.

The construction industry is often involved in a wide array of testing. In addition to simple compression testing, testing standards such as ASTM C39, ASTM C109, ASTM C469, ASTM C1609 are among the test methods that can be followed to measure the mechanical properties of concrete. When measuring the compressive strength and other material properties of concrete, testing equipment that can be manually controlled or servo-controlled may be selected depending on the procedure followed. Certain test methods specify or limit the loading rate to a certain value or a range, whereas other methods request data based on test procedures run at very low rates.^[15]

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is defined as having a compressive strength over 150 MPa.^[16]

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[1] Urbanek, T.; Lee, S.; Johnson, C. "Column Compression Strength of Tubular Packaging Forms Made of Paper" (PDF). Journal of Testing and Evaluation. 34 (6): 31–40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.

[2] Ritter, M. A.; Oliva, M. G. (1990), "9, Design of Longitudinal Stress-Laminated Deck Superstructures" (PDF), Timber Bridges: Design, Construction, Inspection, and Maintenance, US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Products Laboratory (published 2010), archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2021, retrieved 13 May 2014

[3] Fischer-Cripps, Anthony C. (2007). Introduction to contact mechanics (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-387-68188-7. OCLC 187014877.

[4] Ashby, M., and C. Sammis. “The Damage Mechanics of Brittle Solids in Compression.” Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 133, no. 3, 1990, pp. 489–521., doi:10.1007/bf00878002.

[5] Renshaw, Carl E., and Erland M. Schulson. “Universal Behaviour in Compressive Failure of Brittle Materials.” Nature, vol. 412, no. 6850, 2001, pp. 897–900., doi:10.1038/35091045.

[6] Bažant, Zdeněk P., and Yuyin Xiang. “Size Effect in Compression Fracture: Splitting Crack Band Propagation.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 123, no. 2, Feb. 1997, pp. 162–172., doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9399(1997)123:2(162).

[auto-7] 1 2 Horii, H., and S. Nemat-Nasser. “Compression-Induced Microcrack Growth in Brittle Solids: Axial Splitting and Shear Failure.” Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 90, no. B4, 10 Mar. 1985, p. 3105., doi:10.1029/jb090ib04p03105.

[8] Fracture in Compression of Brittle Solids. The National Academies Press, 1983, doi:10.17226/19491.

[9] Johnston, W. M.; O'Brien, W. J. (August 1980). "The shear strength of dental porcelain". Journal of Dental Research. 59 (8): 1409–1411. doi:10.1177/00220345800590080901. hdl: 2027.42/66871 . ISSN 0022-0345. PMID 6931115. S2CID 135828446.

[10] "Bone Strength - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2023-08-25.

[11] "CIP 35 - Testing Compressive Strength of Concrete" (PDF). Concrete in Practice. National Ready Mixed Concrete Association.

[12] Petrovic, J. J. (2003-01-01). "Review Mechanical properties of ice and snow". Journal of Materials Science. 38 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1023/A:1021134128038. ISSN 1573-4803. S2CID 135765876.

[13] Kermani, Majid; Farzaneh, Masoud; Gagnon, Robert (2007-09-01). "Compressive strength of atmospheric ice". Cold Regions Science and Technology. 49 (3): 195–205. Bibcode:2007CRST...49..195K. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.05.003. ISSN 0165-232X.

[14] "Compressive Strength of Concrete & Concrete Cubes | What | How | CivilDigital |". 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2016-09-20.

[15] "Concrete Testing: Manual vs. Automated Operation".

[16] "Multiscale structure-property relationships of ultra-high performance concrete - EVOCD". icme.hpc.msstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-15.

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